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Here’s a pencil story for you:
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“I am a little pencil, and my name is H and B, I lie upon the mantelpiece for everyone to see; I’m handled forty times a day, it is a weary life, And when my wits are rather dull, I’m sharpened with a knife!” Florence May Hoatson was a poet in the 1900s. Above is the first section of her poem “The Pencil’s Story”, which beautifully describes the little life of a hardworking pencil and it’s journey from the shelf to the hands of the writer/illustrator. Houston’s verse is a figure of speech about life and it’s meaning. Seemingly, pencils...