See This Little Dot AG Ford Except there is a character

Except there is a character in Eloraton that she can’t place—a grumpy bookstore owner with mint-green eyes

Republican Richard Nixon

Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars

a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity

while spouting technological prophecy

See This Little Dot AG Ford Except there is a characterWhen is a dot "not just a blot on a page"? In Jane Yolen's characteristically imaginative, free verse explanation, the humble dot can take on many functions, from a spot of food to an animal's eye, from a marble to a moon. As Yolen extolls the dot's satisfying shape and innate neatness, illustrator Latitia Devernay brings it to life in this read aloud picture book and sends it bouncing, rolling, and teetering off the edge of the page only to reel it