Playful pages, purposeful play

Puzzles, coloring and journals, built for the person using them

Large print word searches with a question to talk about on every page. Coloring books full of real legends, mysteries and fossils. Journals that keep the stories worth keeping.

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Ten books in print, for ages 8 to 108. Pick a shelf.

Easy Large Print Word Search book coverLarge Print Christmas Word Search book coverTrain Track Logic Puzzles book cover

Puzzle Books

Large print word searches and train track logic puzzles.

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The World’s Darkest Legends book coverDeadliest Extinct Animals book coverThe Unexplained book cover

Coloring Books

Folklore monsters, unsolved mysteries, prehistoric animals and K-pop.

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Surviving Middle School book coverThe Stories I Never Knew to Ask book cover

Journals & Keepsakes

A keepsake for a parent or grandparent, and a journal for the middle school years.

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Easy Large Print Word Search book coverTrain Track Logic Puzzles book coverDeadliest Extinct Animals book coverThe World’s Darkest Legends book coverLarge Print Christmas Word Search book cover

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Free puzzles

Try a few puzzles before you buy

Pick a book and we’ll email you free printable puzzles from it, answers included.

Train Track Puzzles6 printable puzzles, easy to hardGet free puzzles → Christmas Word SearchPrintable puzzles in large printGet free puzzles → Easy Word SearchPrintable puzzles in extra large lettersGet free puzzles →

Stories from the pages

Every book is full of stories: legends, case files, fossils and memories. Here are the latest.

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About Pencil Box Press

Every book is built around something worth talking about

A real legend, a real mystery, a real memory. Pencil Box Press makes coloring books, word searches and guided journals meant to be written in, by hand, at the kitchen table.

All our books are available in paperback on Amazon.

Easy on the eyesLarge print that is actually large, and puzzles that fill the page.
Something to talk aboutMemory questions, case notes and facts that turn a puzzle into a conversation.
Fair and finishedPuzzles solvable by logic alone, with full answers in the back.