A sample of hand-writing, done in pen, by a five-year-old student of Italian educator Maria Montessori in 1909.

Translation: "We would like to wish a joyous Easter to the civil engineer Edoardo Talamo and the Princess Maria. We will ask them to bring their pretty children here.

Leave it to me: I will write for all. April 7, 1909." Reprinted from The Montessori Method, by Maria Montessori, published by Schocken books, Inc., New York.