Welcome to Saturday Story Spotlight, my feature where I discuss books my husband and I are reading with our son, Daniel. These are books that he, we, or all of us particularly enjoy.
Dot by Patricia Intriago
Published by Margaret Ferguson Books, an imprint of Macmillan
Patricia Intriago’s Dot is a stark, sparse study in opposites. There are dots that are up and down, happy and sad, yummy and taste bad. Having the illustrations consist of little more than dots set against a solid background – most often black dots on white – means that there is little to distract from the attributes that define each set of dots. Daniel is particularly taken with the dots that are yummy and taste bad. Each of the two appears to have a bite taken out of it, but the bad-tasting dot has its missing piece next to it on the page, as if someone tasted it and then spit it out. Every time Daniel sees Dot, he grabs the book from my hand and starts flipping through the pages asking, “where yummy one?”
Although it isn’t as ornately illustrated as most of the picture books we read, Dot is attention-grabbing in its simplicity, as evidenced by the fact that Daniel latched onto one of the sets of dots almost immediately, after only one or two reads. We are enjoying Dot very much.
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That sounds very creative!
Thank you for reading and writing about Dot! I love seeing what people think of it (especially people like Daniel!); it is my first book.
If Daniel loves Dot, then he’ll love Press Here by Hevre Tullet. Its follows the same idea, but is interactive. The kids get to shake the book, move the book up & down, etc.
Yeah, DOT reminded me a lot of PRESS HERE (without being derivative). I think he’s still a little too young to really “get” PRESS HERE, though, it seems more for at least 3 and 4 year olds.
Too darn cute! It must be the dot, but it reminds me of PRESS HERE.