The Magic Pencil

Once, there was a boy called Fred who found a pencil in his neighbor's yard. When he went home, Fred drew a robot. The next morning, the robot was alive!

Since Fred couldn’t take the robot to school, he kept the robot in his room to keep the robot hidden. When the boy came home from school that day, one of the robot’s hands was stuck to a piece of paper. When Fred saw that, it gave him an idea to get the robot back to where it was originally. His idea was to get the robot’s entire body to stick to the paper. When it was stuck, Fred thought the entire robot would stay on the paper, just like the robot’s hand had stayed. That night, the boy made a bed out of paper for the robot.

The next morning, the robot was stuck on the paper and was no longer alive. It was a pencil drawing again! Every night, when the boy goes to sleep, he imagines what the world would be like if his robot were still alive.