Rosie Revere, Engineer
Readers rate it 4.5 (28 on Hardcover)
32 pages · Released 2013 · Abrams Books for Young Readers
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Rosie Revere, Engineer is a joyful picture book that celebrates creativity, perseverance, and unconventional thinking through the story of a young girl inventor. The book delivers a powerful message about reframing failure as a learning opportunity, modeled beautifully by Rosie's great-great-aunt. It introduces engineering concepts and inspires children to tinker, build, and problem-solve while depicting a positive intergenerational relationship and female role models in STEM.
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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 drea... 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. But when her contraption doesn't fl y but rather hovers for a moment and then crashes, Rosie deems the invention a failure. On the contrary, Aunt Rose inisists that Rosie's contraption was a raging success. You can only truly fail, she explains, if you quit.
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- picture book
- women inventors
- Women engineers
- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Stories in rhyme
- Inventions
- Perseverance (Ethics)
- Picture books for children
- Failure (Psychology)
- Engineers
- Children's fiction
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ISBN 9781419708459 · Abrams Books for Young Readers