The Dot (book)

"For the fictional restaurant, see The Dot."

"The Dot" (ISBN 9780763619619) is a picture book written and illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds about a girl named Vashti who thinks she can't draw.

Plot

Vashti is a girl who says she cannot draw. When she tells her teacher, she says to "make a mark and see where it takes you." Vashti draws a dot on her paper, and her teacher then says "now sign it." The next week she is surprised to see her dot framed on display in the teacher's office. Seeing her dot, she says "I can make a better dot than that." She then starts drawing elaborate, colorful dots and realizes she is indeed an artist.

Published by Candlewick Press, "The Dot" is also a film produced by Weston Woods and FableVision. It was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2006.