Malala’s Magic Pencil
A picture book about a pencil that could erase what is wrong, honest that the wishing does not work.
Malala’s picture book for young children, illustrated by Kerascoët, imagines a magic pencil that could draw away everything wrong with the world. It is autobiography scaled to a child’s understanding, and it does not pretend the wishing works: the pencil is a wish, and the book is clear-eyed that what changed anything was her father’s school and her own insistence on it.
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