Overview
Meet the little dot that lives inside your computer. When you have switched it off, he takes the opportunity to visit his friend, the Duchess of Amalfi. He whizzes through cyberspace to her place for tea. Sometimes he is full of ink and wobbly, and sometimes he isn’t. There are soldiers in white uniforms at the bottom of the hill, that he likes to cover in ink—and then he dances with them, because he is ashamed of himself. He’s pretty good at dancing—as long as he doesn’t wiggle he won’t make a single blot. Ralph Steadman is the award-winning illustrator of both adult and children’s books, including That’s My Dad, The Grapes of Ralph, America, and No Room to Swing a Cat.
Synopsis
In his famously kinetic, inimitably exuberant style, artist Ralph Steadman provides the first picture book on that all-important icon of the computer age… the dot!
Times Educational Supplement
The parade of colored ink creatures suggests a joyful child let loose in a stationery store. If we need another dot.com millionaire,Ralph Steadman gets my vote.