Front cover of Tod The Dot: a tiny dot at the center of a light-blue watercolor big bang, the title built from painted shapes

A dot discovers
the world of
shapes.

One tiny dot, alone in an empty space
— until curiosity turns nothing into a whole world.

OUR HERO

Curious and Innocent.
He is just a dot.

Tod is a dot, and that is the whole of him — curious, easily delighted, just as easily spooked, and quietly bothered by how much nothing surrounds him.

He never becomes another shape. He meets them, plays with them, and discovers that together they can invent a whole world of new ones.

Look, a Squarangle!

Tod, a small hand-painted gray dot
A painted square with an orange triangle on top, standing like a little house

THE ART

A table covered in taped watercolor sheets, brushes, pigments and glass mixing cups

Paper, water, pigment. Nothing else.

Every shape was painted on paper, one wash at a time — taped down, dried, cut out, arranged by hand. The uneven edges and the pigment that blooms are the point, not a defect.

Storyboarded in marker on a kitchen table before a single page was painted. No AI wrote it, drew it, or colored it.

Tell me when it’s out

The process

From marker storyboard to cut-out shape — swipe through how the book was made.

Purple square and orange triangle cut from painted paperA painted line and dot on a folded sheetMarker storyboard of the whole book, panels circled in yellowSecond storyboard sheet in marker with shape sequencesSketchbook layout with a watercolor triangle and placeholder text

A geometric adventure.

A single dot glowing in the dark
A single dot in the void.
Two dots joined by a line
Two dots join and become a line.
A purple square joined to an orange triangle
Shapes meet and team up.
A blue square with an orange roof, a house
Together, they build a house.

Tod is alone in the void

One small dot in an endless space. That’s how our hero’s journey begins — right after he appears out of the dark.

The opening double page of Tod The Dot

Creative connections

Exploring the world and making friends, Tod keeps finding new shapes — and the creative power of connecting.

Two dots traveling toward each other along a dotted pathThe two dots joined into a single line

Meeting the shapes

One by one, new friends show the dot their corners and curves. An adventure he comes out of knowing more.

An orange watercolor triangle on a yellow washA small world of squares, triangles and a yellow ground

Tod's friends

Tap a friend to hear them

About the authors

Photo of Antônio

Antônio Neto

Story & script

Wrote Tod's world from a single question: what would a dot think, if it woke up alone in all that white space?

Photo of Sérgio

Sérgio Saleiro

Art & illustration

Paints every page in watercolor, cuts the shapes out by hand, and keeps the brush marks exactly where they fell.

The series

Tod has more to explore...

Each book hands children one more piece of the geometric world, in the same hand-painted watercolor.

Cover of book one: a tiny dot at the center of a light-blue watercolor big bang

Tod The Dot

Point, line, triangle, square, circle — all together in one geometric adventure.

Coming December 2026

Cover mockup of book two: a white arc painted on a blue sky

Tod The Dot and the Origin of Colors

Tod discovers that shapes have a whole new side, in an adventure full of color.

Cover mockup of book three: an orange triangle and a white dot on a blue sky

Tod The Dot Goes to the Zoo

When Tod heads into the wild, strange shapes come alive.

Start with a dot

Tod The Dot, book one. Hand-painted in watercolor, printed for small hands.

Price
US$ 14.99
Format
Hardcover · TBC
Pages
40 pp
Size
21 × 21 cm
Language
English
Age
Ages 3–6