Pencil Jas Hammonds Daddy is the Mystery Reader

Daddy is the Mystery Reader at Tori’s school today

the first in a series filled with #blackgirlmagic

As Hitler marched his troops across conquered lands and deadly "wolfpacks" of German U-Boats prowled the open seas

” ―New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young

And when the butterfly finally emerges

Pencil Jas Hammonds Daddy is the Mystery ReaderWhat 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