This is a keeper!  This one needs to be nominated for the Washington Children’s Picture Book Award for 2012-2013 school year.  Janet Stevens does it again, knocks one out of the ballpark.  The main characters of this story are the tools that you would find on a teacher’s desk: scissors, stapler, pushpin, etc. and of course, the infamous “red pen” used for correcting papers.  One night pen works late into the night and asks for help from the other tools, who do not wish to participate in the correcting of papers.  Then the accident.  Pen accidently falls off in to the “the pit of no return” aka the trash can.  The other tools work together, in  a clever and cooperative manner, which also includes the classroom hamster, to rescue our hardworking pen.    Great personification of common, everyday objects, found on a teacher’s desk.  Kids and adults alike with delight in this story.  Wonderful, large, colorful illustrations by Susan Stevens Crummel.  (yes, the author and illustrator are related to each other).