Fifth-grader Bob and his best friend Clementine are visited by the superhero Hot Dog from the planet Dogzalot to warn of an invasion of evil pencils with plans to erase the whole world.
Once upon a time, in pencil school, a brave little red pencil sets out to write an exciting story with nouns and adverbs and everything--but first she has to face the ravenous pencil sharpener, the Wolf 3000.
After Mr. Brainfright does a magic trick with Jack's new pencil, everything that the pencil draws starts coming true, but all the things that it causes to happen are bad.
A grandfather tells his young grandson about a pencil he once had which magically wrote tales of its life and the lives of its friends: the paper, table, door, and floor.
Perry and his friend Cosmo find some magic pencils that turn them into the comic book characters they have invented, and a battle between good and evil ensues.