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. 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.

Ada Twist, Scientist, the companion picture book featuring the next kid from Iggy Peck's class, is available in September 2016. On the contrary, Aunt Rose insists that Rosie’s contraption was a raging success: you can only truly fail, she explains, if you quit.įrom the powerhouse author-illustrator team of Iggy Peck, Architect comes Rosie Revere, Engineer, another charming, witty picture book about believing in yourself and pursuing your passion. But when her contraption doesn’t fly but rather hovers for a moment and then crashes, Rosie deems the invention a failure. 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. This companion volume to the wonderful Iggy Peck, Architect, sees Andrea Beaty and David Roberts team up to create an inspiring and stylishly-illustrated picture book about the importance of following your dreams - however eccentric or unlikely they may be.Įach page spread is beautifully designed, making clever use of colour, pattern and white space children will love exploring all the wacky details of Rosie's imaginative creations, and spotting the items that recur on different pages.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. But then great-great-great aunt Rosie, in her red-and-white spotted headscarf, appears on the scene, and helps Rosie to understand that sometimes you've got to risk failure before you can find success.

She's kept her inventions a secret ever since, when she was very small, her uncle Zookeeper Fred laughed at the special cheese hat she designed him to keep snakes at bay. She creates wonderful gadgets and gizmos - but only when no one is watching. Rosie Revere dreams of becoming a great engineer.

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