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Sydra Mallery.

Writer · United States

Sydra Mallery: American author of Stubby: A Pencil's Journey (with John Hare on art); a funny, curiosity-sparking picture-book autobiography of a pencil for ages 4 to 8.

Sydra Mallery is an American children's author. In this corpus she writes Stubby: A Pencil's Journey, the gloriously theatrical imagined autobiography of a pencil, narrated by well-loved stub Stubby himself, that follows him from towering cedar tree, through the factory, to a hard-working life in a child's hand. Illustrated by John Hare, it is part silly read-aloud and part cheerful how-it's-made documentary, sneaking real science about everyday objects into a warm, funny story. Mallery writes with personality and comic timing, the kind of book that leaves children looking at the ordinary things around them and wondering how they were made. A reliable picture-book author for ages 4 to 8 with a curiosity-and-STEM slant.