Saturday, May 17, 2025

Pencil by Hye-Eun Kim - ESSENTIAL

Pencil by Hye-eun Kim
. PICTURE BOOK Toon (Astra/Boyds Mill), 2025, originally published in Korea in 2021. $19. 9781662665530 

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL - ESSENTIAL 
APPEALS TO: MANY 

In this wordless picture book, colored pencil shavings become a tree, then many trees and then a forest, with animals. But when the trees are cut and taken to a factory and made into colored pencils, a little girl knows just what to do. 

Gorgeous, and special. When you read Pencil, you may get a different story. I love how the author left instructions for reading a silent book at the end - I would have put it at the beginning. What will this story tell you? Because Pencil was originally published in Korea, I would infer that the little girl is also Korean. 

Lisa Librarian and AJ age 9

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