Rosie Revere, Engineer (Innovator)

by Andrea Beaty

David Roberts (Illustrator)

From the powerhouse author/illustrator team of Iggy Peck, Architect comes Rosie Revere, Engineer, another charming, witty picture book about pursuing your passion. Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she's a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her Great, Great Aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal--to fly--Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt's dream come true. Her invention complete, Rosie attempts a test flight--but after a moment, the machine crashes to the ground. Discouraged, Rosie deems the invention a failure, but Aunt Rose insists that on the contrary, it was a raging success. You can only truly fail, she explains, if you quit. Reassured, Rosie returns to her engineering and inspires her classmates to join in the fun.

• ISBN13: 9781419708459
• Publish Date: 3 September 2013
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Abrams
• Imprint: Abrams Books for Young Readers
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 32
• Language: English
• URL: https://abramsandchronicle.co.uk/book/rosie-revere-engineer/

Reviews

[Jo]

Originally posted on Jo's Scribbles.

A REVIEW OF BOTH ROSIE REVERE, ENGINEER & ADA TWIST, SCIENTIST.

These two books are from a series that started with Iggy Peck, Architect, about a class of children who all have various fascinating interests. With Rosie Revere, Engineer and Ada Twist, Scientist, we're introduced to two girls whose interests are typically considered male interests. But Rosie is a keen inventor and loves solving problems by creating devices, and Ada is full of questions she wants answers to, and will conduct experiments to find out those answers. These books are perfect for little girls who aren't interested in stereotypically girlie interests, with two wonderful role models to inspire them to do what they love - and I don't think I need to say how wonderful it is that little girls of colour have someone like them to look up to in Ada. What's also brilliant is each story has a lesson too; Rosie learns that real failure only comes when you give up, not because something didn't work, and Ada learns there's nothing wrong with asking questions.