A pencil to give it would have been much longer. Ergonomically in hand, very stable udn the child has a good typeface so. By small burls hand does not slip down. At first I thought that you could sharpen him no good, but that's no problem at all. Very economical in use. Genial we find, however, that there finally is a pencil, whose mine is not always aborts. My daughter has a number of them in different sizes. We do not buy more.