While we have celebrated Polkadot Day, why not a day for Dots. I have put together a wide selection of books that all have one thing in common. Dots. I hope you enjoy this collection of unusual books.
First book is “Put Me In the Zoo’ by Robert Lopshire. I first read this book at the dentist. Our dentist in downtown Zion had all of the Dr. Suess books on a bookshelf. As a little guy, I loved reading them there.
The next book always makes me smile. I pick it up every now and then and re-read it. ”The Dot and the Line, a romance in lower mathematics” by Norman Juster, 1961. It is a story of a little straight line who falls in love with a dot.
The third book is also quite interesting. Not only is it “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, 2012, this is illustrated by Yayoi Kusama. This artist will be 95 this year, and is still going strong. she does a lot of work with dots. She is my granddaughter’s favorite artist. When talking to my family about Yayoi Kusama, my brother found out she was having an exhibition in Washington D.C. After a few weeks of desperate calls, getting line “sold out”, he finally was able to see it. Kusama may be his favorite artist, as well.
The next book is rather obscure, Brown’s Signal Reminder, International Code, Semaphore, and Morse” circa 1930. It shows ways to message from a ship, to another ship, or to dry land. There are specialized flags, semaphore flags held by a person, and mechanical semaphore. And, there is also Morse code. They are letters and specific words that are spelled out by series of dots and dashes.
The next book is “Seurat” with text by Pierre Courthion, 1988. It is nice book of prints that are tipped in, rather they are attached to the printed page, being a different paper than used for printed word. So there are 48 colored prints, some that are folded over, being larger than the book page. Seurat was famous for his pointillism. He used dots of paint to make his pictures. Many times have I seen his most famous painting “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” at The Art Institute in Chicago.
The last book is titled “One Red Dot” a pop-up book by David Carter, 2004. It is a wonderful book in which you have to find the “one red dot” in each pop-up. The dot gets increasingly difficult to find, as the pop-ups get more and more elaborate. If you have only one pop-up book, this would be a good one to have. My daughter gave this to me on my birthday. Then every year, she gave me the next one in Carter’s series of dots.
“_._ . . .__. _ _ _ _. ._. . ._ _.. .. _. _ _.” Morse code for ‘Keep on reading.’
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