Penny the Pencil
4 primary works • 6 total works
Book 1
After a summer spent on dusty bookshop shelves sellotaped on special offer to a dictionary, Penny the Pencil is thrilled to be bought by 8-year-old Ralph the day before school starts. Unlike Penny, Ralph is not looking forward to going back to school. He is a poor student, and an easy target for Bert, the class bully. Penny feels sorry for Ralph, and as her spelling is so good - having been sellotaped to Dictionary all summer - she manipulates his hand so that he spells correctly and gets full marks on his tests. This behaviour is not appreciated by the other residents of Ralph's pencil case, and terrible events ensue.
Book 2
Having overthrown Black Texta and his evil sidekick Rubber, Penny and her friends can get on with helping Ralph with his schoolwork. But someone is writing graffiti on Ralph's school books, vandalising Sarah's entry in the school colouring competition and turning Ralph's coloured pencils against Gloop. With help from Sarah's pencil Polly, Penny goes undercover to find out who is committing these dastardly deeds. Together with Polly, Penny sneaks into the other children's pencil cases to find out who is responsible. After close calls in the pencil cases of Lucy the Stealer, Sean the Chewer and the strange Floating Healers, Penny and Polly stumble across the lair of the evil culprit, and discover that it will take all their ingenuity to save not only themselves, but all the children in Ralph's class from the evil plot.
Book 3
Penny can't believe her luck. She had told everyone she was going to become a TV star and now it was actually happening. "Officer Cool" is Ralph's favourite TV show and she is the new Officer Lead, his trusted pencil. With her new friends Clapper, the clapperboard, Ruby the make-up brush and Meg, the megaphone, Penny has to save the show from being taken off the air. Someone is tampering with the scripts and Penny has a feeling that the evil Black Texta might be back. Penny's idea to run a competition to appear on the show might just save it, but when Bert the Bully wins the competition, she begins to get suspicious...
Book 6
Ralph, Sarah and the rest of their class visit the zoo. Despite the fabulous attractions on offer they learn that the zookeeper may be forced to close his business and make way for a factory that creates TEXTA pens.With Black Texta doing everything in his power to make sure the zoo does close, Penny and her friends are forced to take action to try and stop him, but will they succeed and save the zoo?Find out in this wonderful new addition to the Penny the Pencil Series.
This is the fifth book in the enormously popular "Penny The Pencil" series, which sees our heroine on a new adventure that's out of this world. It's space week at Ralph's school and with the chance to attend a space camp and build a real test rocket up for grabs, rivalry reaches fever pitch. With the help of Gloop, space-pen Sputnik (the new arrival in the pencil case) and all the other pencils, Penny is stretched to the limit to prevent her arch enemy Black Texta destroying Ralph's chances. But even if they succeed, can Penny keep Ralph on course through space camp and just how far will Black Texta go?
A new adventure for Penny! It is Health Awareness Month in Ralph's school. The new arrival in the pencil case, Baron de Couberpen, is whipping the pencils into shape for the inaugural Pencilympics. But even before the Pencilympic flame is lit, the competition takes a terrible turn when Cheetah the Cheater almost drowns during training for the rowing race. Penny has her suspicions of who is behind the sinister sabotage. Part of the Penny the Pencil series. Eileen O'Hely is an Australian of Irish descent. She is the best-selling author of three previous Penny the Pencil books and currently lives in Sydney. Nicky Phelan's film, Foetus, was selected and screened in the Galway Film Fleadh 2003 in the Best New Irish Animation Short category. Nicky is currently working in Brown Bag Films who were involved in the animation of 'Give up yer aul' sins'.