一枝小小的鉛筆，在來到孩子手中之前，究竟經歷了什麼？Stubby 現在只剩短短一截，但很久以前，他其實是一棵高大的雪松！從森林出發，他經歷切割、加工與一次次削尖，交過朋友，也曾失去朋友，甚至在教室地板上灰頭土臉地躺了整整三天。本書讓 Stubby 親自講述自己從「一棵樹」變成「一枝鉛筆」，最後陪著孩子寫字創作的旅程。曾任多年小學教師的 Sydra Mallery 將鉛筆製造過程與科學知識自然融入幽默故事，John Hare 則以充滿喜感的插畫呈現各種機械、交通工具與工作職業。適合喜歡 The Day the Crayons Quit 與 The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors 的孩子。Becoming a writer is a real adventure. This humorous and informational account of a pencil's journey from cedar tree to classroom is told by a stubby little pencil himself. For fans of The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors and The Day the Crayons Quit.It all started in a forest.Before working hard in the classroom and being sharpened down to a stub, Stubby was a towering cedar tree in a forest far away. It hasn't been easy for Stubby--he's been sliced and chewed, made friends and lost them, and even spent three dusty days on the floor before being scooped up . Stubby describes each step of his journey from tree to pencil to writer from his own (very silly, very dramatic, very creative)
