Pencil Jas Hammonds Annie is a smart

Annie is a smart

the first in a series filled with #blackgirlmagic

only a couple dozen remain

And when the butterfly finally emerges

Just when she thinks all hope is lost

Pencil Jas Hammonds Annie is a smartWhat 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