Showing posts with label tattered cover tidbits books inspiring art children make your mark international dot day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tattered cover tidbits books inspiring art children make your mark international dot day. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2012

Bonus Tidbit: Tomorrow is International Dot Day!!!


Read more about it HERE.



The book that started the movement:
With a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices even the stubbornly uncreative among us to make a mark - and follow where it takes us.

Her teacher smiled. "Just make a mark and see where it takes you."

Art class is over, but Vashti is sitting glued to her chair in front of a blank piece of paper. The words of her teacher are a gentle invitation to express herself. But Vashti can’t draw - she’s no artist. To prove her point, Vashti jabs at a blank sheet of paper to make an unremarkable and angry mark. "There!" she says.

That one little dot marks the beginning of Vashti’s journey of surprise and self-discovery. That special moment is the core of Peter H. Reynolds’s delicate fable about the creative spirit in all of us.