Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty 🟌🟌🟌🟌🟌

Rosie dreams of becoming an engineer. She is shy and doesn’t speak much at school, but she knows how to build things. She collects odds and ends from the trash to make her machines. She makes a hat for her uncle the zookeeper to keep the snakes off his head and he laughs at her. Rosie becomes embarrassed and from then on keeps her gadgets and gizmos to herself. Then one day her great-great-aunt Rose, who at one time worked building airplanes comes to visit. Aunt Rose has one dream and that is to fly. So, Rosie set out to build her an airplane. The best line in the book comes after Rosie’s failure of the flying machine. Her aunt tells her, “the only true failure can come if you quit”.

In my mind, this is one of the most important life messages to “Never Give Up”. When you set your mind to something follow it through. The book is written in rhyme and is easy to read to preschoolers. Early elementary school children will also enjoy it. Make sure to take the time to look at all the pictures, they are very funny. The book is part of a series called The Questionnaires and the author has written 2 companion series to go with it; chapter books for older children and Big Project Books. The book gets a 5-star review from both me and my granddaughter.

Fun Activity: Check out the companion book “Revere’s Big Project Book for Bold Engineers” and do one of them.

Published In: 2013
Publisher: Abrams Books
Age Level: 3-6 years
AR Level: 4.2
Pages: 32
Series: The Questioners
Stars: 5