What is a Dot?
Published on 29. April 2025
Book
Hardback
22 pages
978-1-76076-481-4 (ISBN)
Description
What is a Dot? celebrates the joy of mark-making and the creative play that results when we let our imaginations and our pencils roam.
What is a dot when a dot is not?
Is it a swish? A sweep? Or a swirl?
Is it a scurry? A wave? Or a pearl?
Explore the joy of mark-making in this lively book, where a dot can be anything you want it to be. Award-winning author Johanna Bell's bright and rhythmic story is accompanied by Amelia Luscombe's vibrant pencil illustrations that follow a continuous line throughout - the pencil doesn't leave the page from start to finish.
This simple yet sophisticated book will nurture a love of art, fun and mark-making in children aged three and over.
What is a dot when a dot is not?
Is it a swish? A sweep? Or a swirl?
Is it a scurry? A wave? Or a pearl?
Explore the joy of mark-making in this lively book, where a dot can be anything you want it to be. Award-winning author Johanna Bell's bright and rhythmic story is accompanied by Amelia Luscombe's vibrant pencil illustrations that follow a continuous line throughout - the pencil doesn't leave the page from start to finish.
This simple yet sophisticated book will nurture a love of art, fun and mark-making in children aged three and over.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Fisherman's Bend
Australia
Target group
Children/juvenile
Illustrations
Illustrated throughout
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 257 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
378 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-76076-481-4 (9781760764814)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Johanna Bell is an award-winning author who lives in Nipaluna (Hobart) on the land of the Muwinina. Previously, Johanna lived in the Northern Territory where she made books with deaf artist Dion Beasley. Together they won the CBCA Picture Book of the Year for Go Home Cheeky Animals in 2017, and in 2020, they were nominated for a Prime Minister's Literary Award for Cheeky Dogs: To Lake Nash and Back, an illustrated memoir on Dion's life. Amelia Luscombe is a visual artist based in Rubibi (Broome), Western Australia. She majored in printmaking and drawing at Curtin University and continues to create using these mediums while playing with mural painting, textiles and ceramics.