"This innovative story within a story encourages imaginative thinking and creativity through a fun-filled picture book adventure."
September 2025 Book of the Month
Boasting beautiful, bright, characterful illustrations, Carly Gledhill’s Pencil’s Best Story Ever invites little ones to join Peanut on a joyously colourful adventure, as directed by Pencil the author.
After Peanut packs his backpack with “all sorts of useful adventury things”, he embarks on a BIG ADVENTURE, with Pencil promising that this will be “my BEST STORY EVER”. As for the story within a story that unfolds, it begins with a very useful map that tells Peanut to head to THE SUPER SPOOKY FOREST.
Here Peanut encounters a big grizzly… jelly, and a big grizzly bear that chases both Peanut and Pencil through the forest. Then follows all manner of unexpected off-piste twists in Pencil’s tale, with a giant octopus, giant snowball and the big beaming sun all playing a part in an adventure that sees Pencil struggle to keep control of the characters he created!
Rounded off with a tantalising hint that Pencil might pen another story (“Now, who wants to be in my NEXT story? I’ve already written it. Guys?”), Pencil’s Best Story Ever brims with energy and a surreal sense of fun. It’s also a joy to read aloud as readers are encouraged to interact with the story and characters.
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Pencil's Best Story Ever is celebration of creativity, story writing and resilience with fun charaters children will love.
With gorgeous illustrations by an award-winning illustrator, this book is perfect for fans of The Day the Crayons Quit.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Pencil's Best Story Ever and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-6 years old
Pencil's Best Story Ever features in the following genres: Featured Books for 3+ readers, Featured Books for 5+ readers, Books of the Month, Recommendations, Star Books, Adventure Stories, Stories about Family and Friends, Funny, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Grammar, Spelling & Literature, Picture storybooks: imagination and play, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Interactive adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Humour and jokes, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Picture storybooks, Children’s picture books, Children’s: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Educational: Language, literature and literacy, Educational material
Pencil's Best Story Ever is available in Paperback, Hardback
Pencil's Best Story Ever was written by Carly Gledhill and published by Post Wave Children's Books an imprint of Post Wave Publishing UK LTD
Pencil's Best Story Ever has 32 pages
£11.69
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