Pencil Auto Nadia Salomon making the cards not just

making the cards not just functional but also decorative

featuring gorgeous silhouettes from Arthur Rackham on each page

and happily unconventional introduction to the subjects children encounter in school

tenderness

Pencil Auto Nadia Salomon making the cards not justWhat 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