Vashti is stupefied and goes home to continue drawing dots. The teacher looks at the dot quietly for a few seconds. In frustration, Vashti stabs the paper with her marker and makes a single dot.
Then comes this line of the teacher: ‘Just make a mark and see where it takes you.’
Vashti gets grumpy and responds with a wry ‘Very funny! I just can’t draw!’ There is a blank sheet of paper on the table before her and the Art teacher looks at it and says, ‘Ah, a polar bear in a sandstorm!’ The book opens with a child, Vashti, sitting in a classroom, head bent and a sorrowful expression on her face. Reynolds‘ book The Dot (Candlewick Press) is there to remind us all to “Make your mark, and see where it takes you.” What the book is about: F or anyone who has been afraid to express themselves – from a child in art class to an adult whose fear has shut down a long-held dream, Peter H.
The Dot by Peter Reynolds is one book every parent and every child must read. The book had just 32 pages and it was a picture book, so it took me hardly any time to flip through it. On a recent trip to Mumbai, a friend of mine handed me this book and said that it is one book that every child and every parent must read.
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