Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books with Handwriting on the Cover.
The topic got me thinking: Do kids still learn to write in cursive these days? I’m guessing not. I used to have a fairly nice cursive handwriting… and now when I attempt it, it’s mainly a big, messy scrawl. Sigh. I love how quick and easy it is to use a keyboard, but it’s a bit sad to think about handwriting as a lost art.
By the way, did you know that the National Archives is looking for people who can read cursive to volunteer to transcribe historical documents? Sounds like a really fun project… that I’ll bookmark for when I have more free time in my life! Learn more here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/12/national-archives-needs-citizen-archivists-cursive/77493951007/
Back to the books! Rather than focusing on actual handwriting, I just started looking through my physical and digital shelves for book titles in cursive fonts… and found more than I expected! Here’s a round-up of 13 that I really like… because I couldn’t decide which to drop to get to ten.
- Cinnamon & Gunpowder by Eli Brown
- Ready or Not by Cara Bastone
- The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
- Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey
- The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
- All’s Fair in Love and War by Virginia Heath
- The Bronte Plot by Katherine Reay
- Off the Map by Trish Doller
- Pat of Silver Bush by L. M. Montgomery
- Pride by Ibi Zoboi
- Reputation by Lex Croucher
- The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
- The One That Got Away by Mike Gayle
- Love Lettering by Kate Claybourn
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