pens

Discusses the uses and development of ballpoint pens, as well as how they are designed and made.

Covers every apect of creating artwork with the medium of technical pen, looking at the anatomy, operation, and care of the instrument, giving advice on choosing nibs, inks, and drawing surfaces, and detailing a variety of strokes and stroke patterns and how they can be used,.

Twelve-year-old Audrey's dreams of becoming a writer seem very impractical in light of her father's failing health and the family's shaky finances, until she receives a peculiar bronze pen that appears to have unusual powers.

Uncle Flood is very pleased with his new pen until he tries to write with it and finds that it writes only what it wants to for him, and the series of people who try it after him, until finally his nephew Horace tries something new.

With her father's failing health and the family's shaky finances, twelve-year-old Audrey's dreams of becoming a writer seem very impractical until she is given a peculiar bronze pen that appears to have unusual powers.