Our dear little friends,

In this book you will meet two very outstanding characters, Pencil who is an artist and a real magician, and Screwbolt, a little iron man, who is a very clever mechanic.
Both are very nice people and we hope you will like them and will want to learn from them.

If so, write to us and tell us how you understood this book and what it has taught you. We get very many letters from our young readers. The boy wrote, “Please tell me where I can learn to draw like
Pencil. I would then draw myself a bicycle, a toy gun and two toy. cars.”

And another boy wants to learn to draw for a very different reason: “I want to draw a magic school where all my chums could learn to be magicians. And I also want to draw a river by our house so that Granny does not have to go far with her washing. She’s old, you know.” Frankly, we like the second letter better. Why, do you think?

Yuri Druzhkov

Translated from the Russian by Fainna Glagoleva
Drawings by Nikolai Grishin

All credits to Guptaji

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