These color pencils are simply the best!  Designed with small hands in mind, the triangular shape actually helps your child hold a pencil correctly.  World-renowned quality pencils that do not break easily and write smoothly still made by Lyra in Germany.  The color actually goes through the length of the pencil so it lasts a long time, and it's solid, not whipped and full of air (this is why the other brands don't last as long and break more easily.)   You are getting more substance.  Requires larger hole pencil sharpener (see item number 7021 $2.95) 5" long.  Set of 12 pencils.  Germany