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Summary
Summary
Spare, rhythmic text and pairs of simple circular shapes convey opposite relationships in the arc of a day in this very simple concept book.
Dots here, dots there, you can see dots everywhere! Some are loud, and some are quiet. Some are happy, and some are sad. Some dots even taste yummy, while others taste bad.
Graphic designer Patricia Intriago sets bold, circular shapes against a stark white background to emphasize opposite dot relationships.
Author Notes
Patricia Intriago is a graphic designer and the owner of Intriago Design LLC. Dot is her first book. Patricia lives with her husband and their two sons in Tenafly, New Jersey.
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-In this whimsical book about opposites, each dot acts as a visual analogy. Simplicity equals accessibility, but it also denotes depth of thought. Even two- and three-year-olds will make astute observations. Visually announcing the morning, the story begins with a large, shining, cadmium yellow dot on a cyan blue background with the simple text, "Dot." Humor prevails on one spread that contrasts a chewed dot: "This dot is yummy," with a chewed dot and spit-out piece, "This dot tastes bad." Another unique spread is tactile in its rendition of "Hard dot," which does not yield under the pressure of a small photographed finger pressing down, opposite "Soft dot," which does yield like a soft rubber ball. Most of the book is in black and white unless there is a reason for color, as on the "Stop dot" and "Go dot" or on the "Hurt dot" and "Heal dot" pages. Band-Aid and boo-boo stories, and countless others, will pour forth from young audiences. Children will encounter ample ways to interact with this incredibly elegant, clever, and delightful concept book.-Sara Lissa Paulson, American Sign Language and English Lower School PS 347, New York City (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
In her debut, graphic designer Intriago explores dots as a graphic designer might, crisply and systematically. The text begins like a P.D. Eastman classic ("Dot. Stop dot. Go dot. Slow dot. Fast dot"). White pages with simple, graphic, black shapes communicate their messages like signs. "Slow dot" hasn't made it all the way onto the left page yet; "[f]ast dot," with lines coming off it, speeds off the other edge. Thoughts about dots grow more complex: "This dot is yummy" shows a large black dot with a bite taken out of it; "This dot tastes bad" shows the same bitten-into dot, this time with the discarded bite lying beside it. Occasionally the protocol is enlivened with photographs, a visual "kaboom" amid the overall air of restraint ("Got dots," says a picture of a Dalmatian; "Not dots" shows a striped zebra), but it's back to black and white as the book bids goodnight: "Dots up in the sky so bright/ twinkle as we say goodnight." And indeed, as might be expected from a book this elemental, there's something restful about it. Ages 3-6. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
Intriago plays with three levels of meaning in a concept book that uses a circle as its sole subject and character. On its most basic level, it's a book of opposites: stop/go; slow/fast; happy/sad. The bold graphics, mostly in black and white after the first few pages, show variations on the circle theme to highlight meaning. A green dot means go, a red dot, stop; a half-circle making a tentative entrance on the left side of the page illustrates slow, a quick exit on the right side of the page, fast; a half circle symbolizes a smile for happy, a tear-drop shape, sad. On a slightly more sophisticated level, it shows the activities and emotional arc of a child's day, beginning with the sunrise on the cover and ending with a full moon as a white circle against a black sky, surrounded by smaller white dots representing stars. In between there is the familiar running and bouncing around, being loud, being hungry, eating and spitting out yucky food, getting a scrape and the ever-important Band-Aid, and an afternoon outing in which we spy a Dalmatian ("got dots") and a zebra ("not dots"), both of which we see in photos against a stark white background. On a purely artistic level, it's all about perception, how we can see the same thing differently depending on context and composition. Intriago's accompanying text helps us share her vision, but it also serves to keep us a little off-center, as she offers a few predictable rhymes but avoids others. Just when you think you know what the circle is going to do, it goes and hides behind a square. kathleen t. horning (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Unexpected bright spots and laughs roll right over the uneven text in this concept piece.In bold yellow on a glossy blue background, a clean shape introduces itself: "Dot." Next are "Stop dot" and "Go dot," predictably red and green. A "[l]oud" Pac-manesque dot sits across from its "quiet" counterpart, which is similar but has a tiny mouth. A dot missing a jagged bite is "yummy," while its partner, similarly bitten but with the bite lying nearby as if spit out, "tastes bad." Weaker pairs glean definition only through heavy-handed contrast. Some dots are abstract: A shy dot's mostly missing, as if hiding behind a white square, but because the background's also white, the square must be inferred. The delightful bits are Intriago's mid-book leaps away from her own setup. Out of the blue, photographed human hands appear to poke a hard and a soft dot, and "Got dots"a Dalmatian photocontrasts with "Not dots"a zebra. These diversions are surprisingly funny. The weakness here is text, which vacillates between rhyming/scanning completely and not, with one glaring miss: "Stop dot / Go dot // Slow dot / fast dot" yearns to swap "slow" and "fast" for the rhyme.Verse wonkiness leaves an opening for youngsters to "read" to their adults by simply naming dotsno harm there. (Picture book. 2-4)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
In the minimalist style of Herve Tullet's Press Here (2011), this debut cleverly squeezes a lot of sly humor from that dullest of shapes: the dot. It begins in color ( Stop dot is red; Go dot is green), but most of the book is, impressively, rendered in black and white, with the smallest of alterations giving the titular object a whole lot of personality. A giant black dot is Heavy dot. Floating, fine-lined circles like bubbles are Light dots. Hungry dot is just a circle, but its partner, Full dot, is a chubby, squarish, page-filling solid black shape just looking at it makes you feel full. This dot is yummy has a dot with a bite taken out of it. This dot tastes bad is the same thing, except with the bitten chunk lying beside it. There is even an out-of-nowhere picture of a Dalmatian ( Got dots ) and a zebra ( Not dots ) to keep things fresh. You get the idea: this is simple, surprising graphic design that will wake up even jaded readers to the creative possibilities inherent in the most basic of shapes.--Kraus, Daniel Copyright 2010 Booklist