Pencil John A. Rice Triumphant

Triumphant

and Associated Press Top 10 Book of the Year One of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2024 One of Chicago Public Library's Favorite Books of the Year

and have sold over three million copies

the sudden turn at the end

the manor that Blythe and Aris call home

Pencil John A. Rice TriumphantA New York Times New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book A BookPage Best Book What 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