The art class was over, but Vashti sat glued to her chair. Her paper was empty.
美术课结束了，但沃诗提留在位子上。她的画纸仍旧是一片空白。
Her teacher smiled. “Just make a mark and see it takes you.”
但老师微笑着说：“你哪怕是做个记号也可以，看看它会引你去哪里”。
Vashti grabbed a felt-tipped pen and gave the paper a good, strong jab. “There!”
沃诗提听了猛的抓起一个带橡皮的铅笔，用力的在纸上戳了一下，说：“就这儿了”。
Her teacher picked up the paper and studied it carefully. “Hmmmm.”
老师拿起画纸，细细的研究起来：“嗯——！”
She pushed the paper towards Vashti and quietly said, “Now sign it.”
老师把画纸放回到沃诗提面前，平静地说：“现在，把你的名字签上去吧”。
Vashti thought for a moment. “Well, maybe I can’t draw, but I CAN sign my name.”
沃诗提看着画纸想了一会，自言自语道：“也许我不会画画，但签名我还是会的。”
The next week, when Vashti walked into her 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!
第二周，当沃诗提再次走进美术教室的时候，她惊奇的发现在老师的桌子上面挂着的一幅画：那是她画的点啊！而且画已经用旋涡状的金黄色相框装了起来。
“Hmmph! I can make a better dot than THAT!”
“噢！” 沃诗提思考着，“我可以画比这个点更好的点喔！”
She opened her never-before used set of watercolours and set to work.
她把已经很久不用的水彩笔拿了出来，开始作画。
Vashti painted and painted. A yellow dot. A green dot. A red dot. A blue dot.
沃诗提画呀，画呀，红点、绿点、黄点、蓝点……
The blue mixed with the red. She discovered that she could make a PURPLE dot. Vashti kept experimenting. Lot of little dots in many colours.
突然，蓝色的点和红色的点混合了，沃诗提发现自己弄出了一个紫色的点。她很惊奇，就一直不停的尝试下去，又画出了许多不同颜色的点。
If I can make little dots, I can make BIG dots, too.” Vashti splashed her colours with a bigger brush on bigger paper to make bigger dots.
“如果我可以画小点，我就能画大点。” 沃诗提说完就拿起了一只大画笔，在一张大纸上挥毫起来。
Vashti even made a dot by NOT painting a dot.
沃诗提甚至不是直接画出一个点，却留白出了一个点的氛围。
At the school art show a few weeks later, Vashti’s many dots made quite a splash.
几周后，在学校的艺术展览上，沃诗提画的各种各样的点让大家大开眼界。
Vashti noticed a little boy gazing up at her. “You’re a really 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.”
沃诗提注意到有一个小男孩在认真的看着她的画，他对沃诗提说：“你真是个大艺术家，要是我也可以画画该多好啊！”“你当然可以，我可以保证” 沃诗提说。“我？不可能的，即使用尺子比着，我连一条直线也不会画。”小男孩说。
Vashti smile. She handed the boy a blank sheet of paper. “ Show me.” The boy’s pencil shook as he drew his line.
沃诗提笑了，她递给小男孩一张空白纸，说：“你画给我看好吗？”小男孩画了起来，他的笔在不住地颤抖。
Vashti started at the boy’s squiggle. And then she said…
沃诗提注视着男孩的画。 过了一会儿，她说……
“ Please… sign it.”
“请……签上你的名字。”
我为何感动？作者Peter Reynolds 曾在接受采访时说过：“它不只是一本有关艺术的书。这是一本书，鼓励我们，要有勇气表达自己。它轻轻地提醒我们要从小处着手，并努力去实现这一想法。同时，这也是一个伟大的教师的故事，他知道如何使用幽默， 让学生看到自己的愿景。”
这本书虽说的是绘画，我读到的内涵的却并非是创作的过程；虽是涉足儿童美术教育，然而，却足以触动着所有心怀有梦想却不敢去实践、实现的那些怯怯地内心。
这本儿童绘本，告诉着所有的我们：其实，人人都有创造性,人人都可以爆发出自己的宇宙，从一个小小的点就可以开始。
