Sarah,
normally I would email this to you but since you don't have email at the moment, I can share this with my small world of readers...and all struggling creators of whatever whenever. Oh, and my home-schooling sister who has her kids create the most fabulous artwork.
From the "Shelf Awareness" e-newsletter I receive twice a week (and if you love books, you need to subscribe):

"Peter H. Reynolds kicks off the third annual Dot Day with Mayor Thomas Menino at the Boston Children's Museum. Fittingly, the celebration began with a teacher, Terry Shay of Waterloo, Iowa, and his students on September 15, 2009. It was Vashti's teacher in The Dot who set the budding artist on her path with the suggestion, "Just make a mark and see where it takes you."
Reynolds believes, like his heroine Marisol in Sky Color, that each of us has a powerful innate impulse to create. He admits that sometimes while sipping a cup of tea he's so inspired that rather than get water, he's used his tea as his watercolor base. That contributes to the sepia tones in what he calls his "creatrilogy": The Dot, Ish and Sky Color (all published by Candlewick)."


Amazing!
How will you celebrate Dot Day?