The pencil

Resource Information

The work The pencil represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The pencil

Statement of responsibility

by Susan Avingaq and Maren Vsetula ; illustrated by Charlene Chua

Creator

• trueAvingaq, Susan

Contributor

• trueChua, Charlene
• Keenan, Kathleen
• trueChristopher, Neil, 1972-
• trueVsetula, Maren, 1979-

Author

• trueVsetula, Maren, 1979-
• trueAvingaq, Susan

Editor

• Keenan, Kathleen
• trueChristopher, Neil, 1972-

Illustrator

• trueChua, Charlene

Subject

• trueDrawing
• Drawing -- Fiction
• Drawing -- Juvenile fiction
• Eskimos -- Fiction
• trueFamilies
• Families
• Families -- Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• trueFirst Nations (Canada)
• trueIndigenous peoples -- Canada
• Inuit
• trueInuit -- Canada
• Inuit -- Fiction
• Inuit -- Juvenile fiction
• trueInuit families
• Juvenile works
• truePencils
• Picture books
• Picture books
• Picture books for children
• Responsibility
• Responsibility -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSaving and thrift
• Family life -- Fiction
• trueCanada
• Drawing

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Picture books
• Picture books for children

Language

eng

Summary

"Susan and her sister, Rebecca, love watching their mother write letters to people in other camps. Their mother has one precious pencil, and she keeps it safe in her box for special things. One afternoon, Anaana leaves the iglu to help a neighbour, and Susan, Rebecca, and their brother Peter are left with their father. They play all their regular games but are soon out of things to do--until Ataata brings out the pencil! As Susan draws and draws, the pencil grows shorter and shorter. What will Anaana think when she comes home? Based on author Susan Avingaq's childhood memories of growing up in an iglu, this charming story introduces young readers to the idea of using things wisely."--

Storyline

• trueOwn voices

Character

• trueCulturally diverse

Illustration

• trueCartoony

Award

USBBY Outstanding International Books, 2020

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

NLC

Dewey number

jC813/.6

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

• PR9199.4.A968
• PZ7.1.A9738

LC item number

• P46 2018
• Pe 2018

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• -1
• 2

Target audience

juvenile