The Red Pencil

The free poetry style of RED PENCIL helps the reader navigate quickly, but the novel is very moving. At one point, the rescuer gave Amira a red pencil and a sheet of paper, Amira said, "I am happy to beat the drum." By telling the story of a 12 year old girl, the author Andrea Davis Pinckney Please help young readers understand genocide in Darfur and understand its devastating influence on families like Amira

Illustrator Shane W. Evans was able to draw the world of Amira with a pencil and draw a story more humanly by drawing with his own hand. A girl, her hand on her mind, a frame at the graffiti border of a stern

The second part of the red pencil explains the desire and healing of her long life from refugee camp life and silent silence (she stops talking). The rescuer gave her a red pencil to help her take her journey back. Whether Amira can achieve her hope of attending school is an unresolved issue. At the end of the book "Author's Memo", Davis Pinkney gives the background stories of the book. Her violence in Darfur was particularly true to her, as she traveled in Africa and visited many African schools. Multiple interviews with news coverage and people who experienced violent cases, trauma at refugee camps and so on. After receiving the pencil and tablet, how the girl's real story reconnected gradually to the world around her

On my trip to the Lebanon refugee camp, Lawrence van den Boer, the founder of Red Pencil, was shocked by the violence she saw with her children. "When a child takes a ball and another child seizes it, they sometimes will throw stones to each other," she said. In the strait Times article, she explained that the children showed their anger and fear, were excited about each other, and imitated the violence they saw from adults. This emotional trauma is the reason that Mrs Vandeborre founded the charity called The Red Pencil in 2011. Five of the team members in 2015 come from Singapore, the other six from the United States and Australia. Mrs. Van der Boer saw the sufferings of families and children in the Islamic State (ISIS) of Iraq and Syria, and she wanted to help the treatment process. She has seen the benefits of art therapy in Singapore and other areas, and she knows that she might benefit from these traumatized children.