Pencil and utterly absorbing

and utterly absorbing

the case for worrying less about the rich and more about the poor

young and old alike

I was a fighter of windmills

Yet the stories we've been telling ourselves as a civilization are killing us: Fear is wisdom

Pencil and utterly absorbingA 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