Young Rosie knew just how to make her aunt fly."ĭavid Roberts' watercolor, pen and ink, and graph paper illustrations are perfect for this story.
So when dawn approached and red streaks lit the sky,
"But questions are tricky, and some hold on tight,Īnd this one kept Rosie awake through the night. I also like Andrea Beaty's bouncy, rhyming, non-singsongy text. And I LOVE the more subtle message, that girls can be engineers, may even find engineering a calling. The only true failure can come if you quit."īut I like how with only a bit of encouragement from a caring adult, Rosie figures out this lesson on her own, and then spreads it to her classroom. Life might have its failures, but this was not it. Who smiled at her aunt as it all became clear. The lesson of trying again if you don't succeed is overt: But when her great-great aunt Rose (an homage to the fictional Rosie the Riveter of WW II) comes for a visit, Rosie is inspired to try something bold. Rosie does all of her tinkering in secret, hiding her projects away under her bed, emotionally scarred by an uncle who laughed at one of her inventions years earlier. Unlike Iggy, Rosie likes inventing objects gadgets, gizmos, and machines. Rosie Revere is a classmate to young Iggy Peck (an architecture-obsessed boy who eventually uses his architecture skills to save his class, and win over his building-phobic teacher). I didn't need to read it to know that THIS was a book that I wanted for my daughter. last night, I snatched it down from the shelf, and purchased it, unread. So when I spotted Rosie Revere, Engineer in Books, Inc. We also adore Doctor Ted (reviewed here), and aspire to own the two sequels. How on earth did I miss the publication of Rosie Revere, Engineer, a companion picture book to Andrea Beaty and David Roberts' Iggy Peck, Architect? I received Iggy Peck around the time my daughter was born, and I regret that I never reviewed it.
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