When Chuck Amato was fired as North Carolina State University's football coach in 2006, he made comments about how he acknowledged that he made mistakes, but no one should be upset with him because ...

When Hymen L. Lipman patented the world’s first pencil with an attached eraser 150 years ago, he certainly didn’t anticipate its having to compete one day with BlackBerrys and online crossword puzzles ...

Written by Karen Kilpatrick and Luis O. Ramos Jr. Illustrated by German Blanco Ages 3–6 “When Pencil Met Eraser,” by Karen Kilpatrick and Luis O. Ramos Jr. This hilariously illustrated book is about a ...

Perfectly designed objects are hard to find. But since March 30 is National Pencil Day, it seems appropriate to give credit where it's due. It's been 158 years since Hymen Lipman first married the ...

The straight-ahead plot of “When Pencil Met Eraser” highlights the relationship between two inanimate objects that can talk. They tell a lively and multi-layered story. “Once there was a pencil who ...

Every day I take out my mechanical pencil and my Pink Pearl eraser and place them on the desk in front of me before I start my schoolwork. My eraser, though it was originally a perfect parallelepiped ...