Illustrated worlds to explore

A place to begin. A world to make their own.

PENCIL NORTH creates illustrated books that invite children to notice, imagine, choose, and continue in their own way.

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Amelia draws a route across an unfinished paper landscape while another child compares two folded paper paths.

Try another way

You can begin again.

Sometimes the next idea is even better.

Amelia draws a new route beside a faint earlier attempt while a young adult listens with an open hand.

Simon, Amelia's dad, points toward a glowing path through a vast paper world of libraries and observatories.

Look farther

Books take us farther.

With your imagination, you can go as far as you want.

Amelia holds out a book inside a vast warm library filled with shelves and reading tables.

An illustrated PENCIL NORTH paper world on the book Amelia holds

The PENCIL NORTH library

Worlds to discover, book after book.

Every book opens a new door.

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