Pencil Jas Hammonds Just when she thinks all

Just when she thinks all hope is lost

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

the first in a series filled with #blackgirlmagic

In Braiding Sweetgrass

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

Pencil Jas Hammonds Just when she thinks allWhat 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