His dad says, the individual dot-what’s happening now-is important. Stand back so you can see the complete picture. The big picture is made up of millions of tiny dots of color. His mother has often told him that these small incidents are each like one small dot in the Seurat painting. That ‘s’ at the end of Georges is enough for class bullies to call him Gorgeous, bump him in the cafeteria, and tease him mercilessly. Georges is a seventh grader, a city kid, named after the post-impressionistic artist Georges Seurat who painted A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte in millions of colored dots. I haven’t read EVERYTHING this year, so I might have missed something, but this is a great novel, as are all of Rebecca Stead’s three novels. We’ll know what the committee decides nest week, January 28. “Liar and Spy” by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb 2012) has my vote as the next Newbery winner, the highest honor given to a middle grade book.
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