Pencil Auto Nadia Salomon precisely rendered details of life

precisely rendered details of life across the globe

Sid Sharp is a maestro of comic timing and subversion

Now considered a classic

Two-time Caldecott Medal winner Chris Raschka captures the sound

Pencil Auto Nadia Salomon precisely rendered details of lifeWhat is a pencil? A forest transformed. In this beautifully illustrated wordless picture book, young readers can follow a pencil's life cycle from tree to factory to store shelf and back to tree. Even the simplest tool contains multitudes. Once a living tree, then a manufactured commodity, a pencil in the hands of a young artist becomes the key to a rich imaginative world. In this expansive, gorgeously illustrated story, creator Hye Yun Kim asks us to