Dot! Scribble! Go! by Herve Tullet

Good fun will be had following the guidelines in this very different drawing book. It encourages young children to use their drawing full of dots, scribbles, and colour to make images. Armed with a hand and the finger too, stars can become dots and between the dots colour can be added.

Then something can circle the dots or make lines between them, and children will be on their way to make a beautiful drawing. Then some scribbles appear and the child is encouraged to make some scribbles too. Scribbles can be anything and use lots of colours. Out of these scribbles, a form may appear and filled with scribbles will look most attractive.

This easy to follow guide to drawing will attract younger readers to give it a go,  to try something they may not have tried before, to see that whatever they do will end up as an image, a picture.

A sturdy cover ensures the book will be useful when armed with paper, crayons, pens and water nearby, while the pages inside can be marked but wiped almost clean. Kids will love using their imaginations with this book, and parents and teachers will use the models it provides. Energetic, full of charm and wit, the book encourages playing with scribbles, dots and colours, thinking outside the norm, trying something for themselves.

The last pages are a fold out image of what the dots, scribbles, lines and colour could achieve.

Themes: Drawing, Colour, Humour.

Fran Knight