Words by Reiko Sugimoto
Pictures by Toshio and Akiko Fukuda
Translated and narated by Masaki Hashimoto

Let's take a crayon and poke!
Now we have one dot!

Ho hum. Just one dot is kind of boring.

Poke! Poke! Now we have two dots!
Now the dots can be friends!

Let's connect the dots!
Now we have a line!

Poke! Poke! Poke!
Now we have three dots!

Let's connect them all!
Now we have a triangle that looks like a mountain!
Or maybe it's a triangle hat?

Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke!
Now we have four dots!

Let's go around and connect the dots!
Now we have a square!
Is it a children's book?
Could it be a handkerchief?

Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke!
Now we have five dots!

Let's zig and zag and connect the dots, and now we have a star!
If we go around and connect them this way, it turns into a house!

Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke!
Now we have six dots!

Look what I drew this time!
This one's a turtle hiding in its shell!
This one over here is a yacht sailing on the sea!

Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke!
Now we have seven dots!

I wonder what it is?
Let's see what we can draw!
Look! It's a dinosaur!

Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke! Poke! ...
Look at all those dots!

It's starting to rain!

My oh my! It turned into a storm!
Round and round it spins!

Don't get blown away!
Over here! Over here!

Let's gather all the dots!
Connect them all together!
Let's line them all up!

Connect the dots! Connect them all!
Look at this great big ring I drew!
The storm is gone and the sun came out!

Me too! Me too!
Poke! Poke! Poke!

Connect them all!
We can draw anything we can imagine!

Connect them all! Connect them all!
Connect them to the world!

Let's connect with each other like the dots, and let's connect the world!