Disney Princess 12-Piece Pencil Set with Erasers - Cute School & Office Supplies for Girls, Kids Classroom & Art Drawing Gift

Spontaneous ooh’s and ahh’s erupt from envious onlookers as these beautifully crafted writing instruments are slowly unwrapped at a birthday party.The sensually smooth painted finish and first-rate graphic artistry imbues life to the lovely countenances adorning these well-proportioned wood crafted delights. A smiling princess invites a young writer’s eager grasp, competing for adoring eyes against the lustrous lure of a smartly styled metal band anchored sturdily about its circumference.Into this confidence-inspiring metal band is fitted an elegant eraser, seemingly accompanied by the princess’s approving nod and wink offering the welcome assurance that even the best among us (even princesses! ;-) sometimes err.But the performance of these devices is no fairy tale. Down where the graphite meets the paper, these babies really lay down the lead with all the guts we’ve come to expect from under the hood of highly engineered miracles of modern technology. And the eraser performs text deletion effectively when applied judiciously.Having been brought up with a keyboard, my daughter was initially perplexed by this degenerating-stylus method for capturing alphanumeric and graphical data but rapidly grew to appreciate and ultimately embrace the concept. The immediate tactile feedback coupled with the capacity for wide range analog expression inspired her to add new dimensions to her endeavors, including rotund lilting dots over hand-crafted “ i’s,” and ”t’s” crossed with a flourish heretofore unknown.How heart rending it was therefore to see these regal friends slowly consumed by our electric sharpener. The most apologetic faces we could muster did little to quell the faint cries from each princess or to assuage our sad awareness that our remaining time together was growing shorter by the hour. Alas, our moments of high elation were ultimately tempered by the sting of lost friends and lasting sorrow. But isn’t that life? We love, we lose, we move forward. I recommend these pencils.