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The pencil

A lonely pencil timidly draws a boy, a dog, and other items but soon faces a problem as his creations begin demanding changes, and when he draws an eraser to make them happy, the real trouble begins.

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Main Author: Ahlberg, Allan
Other Authors: Ingman, Bruce, 1963- (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2008.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Pencils > Juvenile fiction.
Drawing > Juvenile fiction.
Loneliness > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books for children.
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Summary:A lonely pencil timidly draws a boy, a dog, and other items but soon faces a problem as his creations begin demanding changes, and when he draws an eraser to make them happy, the real trouble begins.
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Awards:A Junior Library Guild selection
ISBN:9780763638948 (reinforced)
0763638943 (reinforced)
Author Notes:Allan Ahlberg was born in 1938 in South London, and grew up in the Black Country. He worked as a teacher, postman, grave digger, soldier and plumber's mate before he became a full-time writer.

He met his wife and creative partner, Janet at teacher training college. It was because Janet wanted to illustrate a book that Allan wrote his first book, the Brick Street boys. After that, together they wrote 37 books.

Janet died in 1994 and Ahlberg discontinued his writing career for a few years before picking it up again.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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