The Pencil That Drew Tomorrow ✏️🌟

The Pencil That Drew Tomorrow: a funny kids storytelling podcast about a magic pencil and catastrophically bad decisions

Oliver Pike has forgotten his pencil again. This is not unusual. Oliver forgets quite a lot of things. PE socks. Reading books. His coat on a day when it is snowing sideways. But pencils are the main one. So when Mr Spindle hands him the last spare from his drawer, a battered, tooth-marked, slightly bent thing that has clearly survived several arguments, Oliver does what any irritated ten-year-old might do. He draws something in the margin of his maths book that he probably should not have drawn.

The next morning, Mr Spindle arrives at school looking noticeably different.

What follows is one of the funniest fun kids stories about wish fulfilment gone spectacularly wrong. Oliver discovers that whatever he draws becomes real the next day. He starts sensibly. Then he starts thinking bigger. Then he stops thinking altogether. And by the end of the week he is being called Britain's youngest entrepreneur by adults who have never met him, his face is on a billboard over the bypass, and someone wants to know whether he would prefer Tokyo, New York, or Dubai for the launch.

This funny bedtime story for kids is perfect for audio stories for children who love magic with consequences, for families who enjoy clever comedy that builds to glorious chaos, and for anyone who has ever wanted something badly and then discovered wanting it was the best part. Children will love the escalating mayhem and the deeply satisfying ending. Parents will recognise the particular horror of getting exactly what you wished for.

Episode length: approximately 14 minutesAges: 4 to 400Best enjoyed: bedtime, car journeys, after school wind downPress play. Oliver has just picked up the pencil. He has absolutely no idea what he is about to draw. Neither does Mr Spindle. Although Mr Spindle is about to find out.

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