One Day a Dot
The Story of You, The Universe, and Everything
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- $20.99
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
One Day a Dot explores the age-old question: Where did we come from? Where did everything come from?
Starting with one tiny dot and continuing through the Big Bang to the rise of human societies, the story of our universe is told in simple and vivid terms. But the biggest question of all cannot be answered: Where did that one dot come from?
One Day a Dot is a beautiful and vibrant picture book that uses the visual motif of circles as to guide young readers through the stages of life on Earth.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lendler (Saturday) tells a creation story based on evolutionary biology, using the "dot" of the title to refer both to things in the sky ("One of these new dots the third one from the sun was a very special shade of blue") and to microscopic organisms ("The green dot was lonely"). In a style evocative of a documentary film, Paroline and Lamb's silkscreenlike artwork in quiet earth tones portrays the progression of creatures from simple to complex. When Lendler gets to dinosaurs ("land-fish"), catastrophe strikes: "Then one day a dot fell out of the sky.... The explosion turned the whole sky red." All the land-fish disappear, but mammals flourish, giving way to humans, who boast something new "a big brain." Fur-clad hunters evolve into a contemporary biracial couple celebrating the birth of their child: "They had families. They had you." Lendler ends with a final puzzle: "There was one question that they could not answer... Where did that first dot come from?" Spirited debates are sure to follow. Ages 4 8.)
