Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Chronicle Books (2000), Edition: First Edition, 80 pages
Description
A straight line falls in love with a dot and develops his talents to form all kinds of geometric shapes in order to win her affections.
User reviews
LibraryThing member GoofyOcean110
Short, sweet, and to the point.
LibraryThing member verbafacio
A sweet, sentimental romance between a dot and a line. This book is often shelved as children's, but I think it is best appreciated by adults. If you have ever done something extraordinary for love, you will relate to this charming tale.
LibraryThing member Neftzger
Genius.
That would be my one word review, but for those of you who want more I would call this one of the best picture books I've ever read. The story is both simple and complex, much like mathematics. It's the story of a line who's in love with a dot and the plot is filled with all the agony of
That would be my one word review, but for those of you who want more I would call this one of the best picture books I've ever read. The story is both simple and complex, much like mathematics. It's the story of a line who's in love with a dot and the plot is filled with all the agony of
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unrequited love for the entire 80 pages, which will take less than 15 minutes to read. But these will be the most amusing 15 minutes of your day as you explore the theme of love through lower mathematics. Show Less
LibraryThing member mwittkids
A humorous tale about a straight line in love with a red dot, and the line's attempts to woo her away from the slothful squiggle.
LibraryThing member kencf0618
The story of my life...
LibraryThing member MeditationesMartini
Intermittently inventive; twee; weirdly essentialist about what women, I mean dots, want, and how lines are supposed to woo them.
LibraryThing member librarybrandy
Aw, come on, Line. You can do better than Dot. Especially after your burst of personal growth! Why didn't you outgrow Dot?
I don't think this is the message I'm supposed to take from this story. I finished it with similar feelings to how I feel about Shel Silverstein's sweet story of codependency
Why everyone should read this anyway: (a) it's Norton Juster, (b) it involves math jokes, and (c) what do you need a (c) for? It's Norton Juster and makes math jokes. Line's friends were concerned about "how terribly thin and drawn he had become"? Who doesn't think that's hilarious?
I don't think this is the message I'm supposed to take from this story. I finished it with similar feelings to how I feel about Shel Silverstein's sweet story of codependency
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The Missing Piece Meets the Big O--a nagging suspicion that I was supposed to find it charming and romantic but instead feeling pity and a mild revulsion to the dynamic.Why everyone should read this anyway: (a) it's Norton Juster, (b) it involves math jokes, and (c) what do you need a (c) for? It's Norton Juster and makes math jokes. Line's friends were concerned about "how terribly thin and drawn he had become"? Who doesn't think that's hilarious?
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LibraryThing member SilverKitty
A love triangle between a line, a dot and a squiggle ultimately resolves in the line winning his lady, the dot.
LibraryThing member alcrumpler
• The line admires the dot, because the dots originality. Later, the line discovers angles and realizes that it can become anything it wants to be: parallelogram, squares, triangles and more.
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1963
Physical description
80 p.; 6.5 inches
ISBN
1587170663 / 9781587170669
UPC
765145117517