Cute children’s book about patience and practice. Kim gets a pencil and needs to figure out exactly how to grip it and use it properly. He grows very frustrated many times but with more practice and patience he was able to do it correctly!

This delightful book introduces the importance and fun that can occur when a pencil becomes a close friend. Little Kim's imagination and artistic skills are ignited when he bonds with a talking magical pencil.

Kim loves the illustrations in the books that his mother shares with him at bedtime. She introduces him to Pencil and encourages him to give his artistic skills a go. It's a difficult task at first to make sense of how to use Pencil correctly. Kim gets frustrated but presses on and finally achieves success.

This book explains to kids how to properly grip a pencil which is an important skill for kids ages 4-6 years to learn. With determination and lots of practice Kim learns how to become quite an accomplished drawer.

The illustrations are bright, vibrant and very kid-friendly greatly enriching the message of the text. I love the fact that Pencil is personified as an actual character. It would be a wonderful book to add to a Kindergarten and Grade One classroom. I recommend the book.

Thank you NetGalley and Pattslabel LLC for accepting my request to read and review Kim and Pencil.

Author: Kids2Adults Books
Published: 12/05/22
Genre: Children's Fiction

The illustrations are eye-catching; vibrant and happy. The task is to introduce a pencil to a child. I think the colors reflect the mood and indicate to the reader to be jovial, kind, and happy. The pencil's reactions demonstrate a mood. The task is not easy one, and there are things to learn from this book.

I did find the over all dialogue daunting but the idea is there.

This book tells the story of a boy named Kim who wants to learn how to draw but has never held a pencil before. The premise of the story is teaching kids how to properly hold (or grip) a pencil, which is a challenging and important skill for children in the age 4-6 range especially. In the story, the pencil is the one teaching Kim how to grip it and he tries a few different grips and becomes frustrated. One of the authors is a Kindergarten teacher and you can tell by the font and text that it was written with this age group in mind. The story is well done, the only part I don't love is that once Kim holds the pencil correctly he can suddenly draw an intricate picture. I feel like for young children who are easily frustrated, this book would potentially make them feel upset when they can't draw like that. I think the idea was that it would take a long time and practice but the way it is written makes it seem like it all happened in one day. Other than that I think it is a good book and would recommend it for teachers and parents of children who are just learning to write and draw. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read and review this book!

Sorry to say that I didn’t get any content when I downloaded the e copy.

Please look into it so that the file is available at the earliest for review.

Thank you.

Tam