Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold Engineers

by Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illustrator)

Overview

Embark on an adventure of personal creativity and invention with fan favorite Rosie Revere! This activity book features art from the picture book Rosie Revere, Engineer and will inspire young readers with activities of all kinds. Kids will have the chance to design a better bicycle, build a simple catapult, construct a solar oven, and more! This empowering activity book will teach problem-solving and creative-thinking skills crucial to STEM fields while also providing opportunities for its readers to try new things and, sometimes, to fail. As the picture book so brilliantly showed hundreds of thousands of young readers, flops are an inevitable part of success and something to be celebrated rather than feared. Created by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts, the same New York Times bestselling team who brought us Rosie Revere, Iggy Peck, and Ada Twist, this activity book will be perfect for old and new fans alike!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419719103
Publisher:	Abrams Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	04/04/2017
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	32,417
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Andrea Beaty is the author of Iggy Peck, Architect and Rosie Revere, Engineer, among other children’s titles. She lives just outside Chicago. David Roberts has illustrated many children’s books, including Iggy Peck, Architect; Rosie Revere, Engineer; and Ada Twist, Scientist. He lives in London, where, when not drawing, he likes to make hats.

Editorial Reviews

03/13/2017
This ingenious spin-off of Beaty and Roberts’s Rosie Revere, Engineer aims to get children asking questions, finding treasure where others see trash, and dreaming up solutions for such real-world “problems” as figuring out how to open a door with one’s elbow. “Let’s build a simple catapult,” reads one entry; parents needn’t worry—the catapult consists of a plastic spoon affixed to an empty thread spool, and it’s designed to launch marshmallows. Lined and graph-paper backdrops underscore the engineering theme, and Roberts’s energetic pictures of Rosie and her classmates entertain while walking readers through hands-on activities that include creating a solar oven (aluminum foil plays a key role) and a paper towel tube vehicle. Games, profiles of inventors, and an all-around focus on pie-in-the-sky thinking add up to an activity book with substantial depth. Ages 5–7. Author’s agent: Rebecca Sherman, Writers House. (Apr.)

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