“Everyone makes mistakes,” your mom told you. “That’s why pencils have erasers.” But did she ever tell you how many different kinds of erasers there are? If you think there’s just the one—the pink ...

The store displays were picked over by the time Mary Lucca went school supply shopping for the first time. It was nearly impossible to find the brand of crayons called for on the list and ...

Discerning pencil users generally prefer white polyvinyl chloride (PVC) erasers over the cheaper pink rubber ones. PVC takes up pencil lead better and causes less damage to paper. Pentel, which makes ...