优秀绘本，在图书当中可算精美点心。尤其是精装版，无论英文还是中文版，价格都不便宜。

    出于对书的热爱，也是对劳动成果换来商品的珍惜，遇到了好绘本，我们会反复看来看去。

    全球性的金融危机没有好转的迹象，大家都恨不得把一分钱掰成两半花。

    为了减少绘本的开支，我们也常把一本书当做两本看。

  

一、中文版

    艺术课结束了，但Vashiti却一什么也没画。

    老师弯下腰，看了看那张白纸，幽默地说：“啊！暴风雪中的北极熊。”

    Vashiti说：“很可笑！我就是不会画！”

    老师笑了笑说：“那随便画一笔，看看能画出什么。”

    Vashiti拿起笔，在纸上狠狠地戳了一下，递给老师，说：“好了。”

    老师轻轻地说：“现在，请签名吧”...

    下个星期，当Vashiti来上艺术课时，惊奇地发现她的那幅画挂在老师的桌子上方的墙上,还用金色的画框装了起来...

 

    《点》，讲述的是老师对艺术课不自信，甚至有点逆反孩子的鼓励和启发式教育。

    好孩子都是激励出来的。老师那充满爱心与独具匠心的教育方式与智慧，震撼着我们的心。

 

    在夜晚读书的时光，《点》的中文版，被依妈讲的活灵活现，依在床上也听的如痴如醉。

    我给依讲过这本书后，看着依依学着瓦士缇的样子，在床上重重地戳一个点，也被逗乐了。

    为了提高这本书的利用率，在网上查到了这个绘本的英文原版内容。

 

二、英文绘本动画片

    The dot，就是《点》的英文原版。

    在优酷上，有这个动画片的视频。

 

 

三、英文正文

    动画片都有了，英文录音也就有了。

    对着这本书的精美画面，我们欣赏着原汁原味的英文朗读，一个中文绘本，就发挥出了原版绘本的功能。

    下面是这个绘本的英文正文。 

    如果你刚好手头也有这个绘本，那就一起来欣赏阅读一下吧。

 

Art class was over but Vashti sat glued to her chair.

Her paper was empty.

Vashti’s teacher leaned over the blank paper.

“Ah! A polar bear in a snow storm,” she said.

“Very funny!” said Vashti. “I just can’t draw!”

Her teacher smiled.

“Just make a mark and see where it takes you.”

Vashti grabbed a marker and gave the paper a good, strong jab.  “There!”

Her teacher picked up the paper and studied at it carefully.  “Hmmmmm.”

Her pushed the paper towards Vashti and quietly said, “Now sign it.”

Vashti thought for a moment.

“Well, maybe I can’t draw, but I can sign my name.”

The next week, when Vashti walked into art class, she was surprised to see what was hanging above her teacher’s desk.

It was the little dot she had drawn – HER DOT!

All framed in swirly gold!

“Hmmmph! I can make a better dot than THAT!”

She opened her never-before-used set of watercolors and set to work.

Vashti painted and painted.

A yellow dot.

A green dot.

A red dot.

A blue dot.

The blue mixed with the red.  Vashti discovered that she could make a PURPLE dot.

Vashti kept experimenting, lots of little dots in many colors.

“If I can make little dots, I can make BIG dots, too.”

Vashti splashed her colors with a bigger brush on bigger paper to make bigger dots.

Vashti even made a dot by not painting a dot.

At the school art show a few weeks later, Vashti’s many dots made quite a splash.

Vashti noticed a little boy gazing up at her.

“You’re really a great artist. I wish I could draw,” he said.

“I bet you can,” said Vashti.

“ME? No, not me. I can’t draw a straight line with a ruler.”

Vashti smiled.

She handed the boy a blank sheet of paper.

“Show me.”

The boy’s pencil shook as he drew his line.

Vashti stared at the boy’s squiggle.

And then she said…

“Please…sign it.”