While a boy sleeps, a pencil writes its story on a piece of paper - how it lived in a box of other pencils in a shop, and how, before that, it was part of a tall tree. The paper, the table, the door and the window all tell their tales until the boy is suddenly woken.

 

This book is part of a book series called Stories .

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 1995 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Michael Foreman has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice. His books are published all over the world.