Pencil Jas Hammonds With magic and mystery in

With magic and mystery in every page

This graphic novel by Muscogee-Jewish writer and artist Emily Bowen Cohen is perfect for fans of American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

And when the butterfly finally emerges

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

In Braiding Sweetgrass

Pencil Jas Hammonds With magic and mystery inWhat 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