| Title | : | Rosie Revere, Engineer (The Questioneers) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1419708457 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781419708459 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 |
| Publication | : | First published September 3, 2013 |
Rosie Revere, Engineer (The Questioneers) Reviews
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"This isn't a girl self-esteem book. This is an importance of failure book. There's something I haven't seen a lot of. The main character is a female because the main character had to be something. She could have been a genderless anthropomorphic bear, that's how little sex roles have to do with this story.
Rosie Revere deals specifically with the value of failure in engineering. In many such tech fields, failure brings practitioners closer to reaching their goals because it narrows the field of things to try. I think you could argue that failure is an important part of many fields."
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Now perhaps if Andrea Beaty's presented poetry had been a trifle less awkward and stumbling (and with that, also not so utterly frustratingly distracting) and if her oh so very much important messages had been less in one's proverbial face and thus not so maddeningly preachy (about being courageous, about not being afraid of making mistakes, about trying again and again if and when disasters do occur, and yes, these are indeed important lessons for EVERYONE), I might have actually enjoyed Rosie Revere, Engineer.
However, the combination of the author's unsubtly rendered (often choppy and to my ears woefully halting) verses (which both thematically and textually have felt rather totally contrived, artificial and as though Andrea Beaty is just and sadly trying way way too hard) and David Roberts's bright but exceedingly over-busy (and caricature-like) illustrations have truly and sadly rubbed me the wrong proverbial way (and furthermore, quite frankly, especially David Roberts' depictions of humans and in particular of Rosie and her family, well sorry, while some readers might indeed consider them cute, entertaning and playful, my own aesthetic conscience feels as though he is actually kind of poking exaggerated fun, almost as though David Roberts wants with his pictorial renderings to promote and even celebrate the attitude and impression that intelligent, that imaginative and innovative people, such as Rosie Revere and some of her nearest and dearest, must by mere necessity also appear as physically strange, with weird clothing, overly coiffed hair styles and the like, thus totally promoting and even enabling the sadly often true universal attiude that if one is intelligent and innovative one must and should physically look weird).
And although I would certainly not go so far as not recommending Rosie Revere, Engineer, for me, the book is quite simply too overtly sermonisinng, too much like being hit over the head with a rubber mallet so to speak and therefore just not all that special and successfully coneptualised to be even remotely a pleasurable personal reading experience, both as an older adult and also, truth be told, I would most likely not have all that much appreciated said sermonising messages as a child either (and indeed, if I were to rate Rosie Revere, Engineer according to how much I actually have managed to find lasting pleasure in my reading experience, I would probably be considering just one star for Rosie Revere, Engineer, and my two star rating is definitely rather generous and really only because, Andrea Beaty's rather preachy narrative notwithstanding, I do very much agree with the important messages she presents). -
But when no one saw her, she peeked in the trash
for treasures to add to her engineer's stash.
And late, late at night, Rosie rolled up her sleeves
and built in hideaway under the eaves.
I thought I would love this feminist children's book about a little girl engineer, but I had some problems.
LOVE
Graph paper end pages
Grandma Rosie the Riveter
Girl-power
It rhymes
HATE
A seeming obsession with Cheez-Wiz. I hate Cheez Wiz.
Rather ugly drawings.
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Whimsical and inspirational.
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This amazing picture book shows the importance of failing before you can be truly great - and it's a wonderful story about self-esteem that connects with Rosie the Riveter. Highly recommended!
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We love Iggy and Rosie-- what great, smart young role models. My five year old now can't decide if he wants to be an architect or engineer! (For now he says he will stick with puzzles.) And we love that you see both characters in both books! Great artwork, fun rhymes, and great themes about facing challenges and Pursuing dreams-- even when adults don't always support or understand that creativity.
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This was a delight and a surprise. Maybe my expectations were just very low because my daughter brings home so many random, forgettable books from the library. Based on the title and cover art, I expected this to be a bland little girls-can-be-engineers-too, girly power kind of book. And then it turned out to be more than that and better than that, and I was delighted!
Two things that stuck out for me:
1 - Great rhyme and meter. Reminds me of Dr. Seuss; Beaty's rhymes pop every bit as well as Seuss's, and she doesn't cheat (I think Dr. Seuss got lazier over time, making up fantastical animals whenever he needed something for his rhyme scheme). Rolls off your tongue if you're reading out loud, without any awkward spots where you have to stop, re-read, and figure out how to carefully emPHAsize the right syllAbles to make it work.
2 - An unexpected and worthwhile message. I kind of don't want to spoil it, because I wasn't expecting it, and when I came to it, the surprise made it all the better. Reminded me of the excellent
The Art of Learning.
All-in-all, good stuff. Look it up!
Also posted on my website
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One of my favorite authors and the woman who inspires me to do my best daily read this book during her women's conference RISE. There wasn't a dry eye in the building by the time she finished reading it aloud, with many of us leaving the room admitting we were going to immediately find the book and purchase it. I don't have children yet, but I have a wonderful, amazing mother who just retired from her role as a Chemical Engineer for over 27 years. This book screamed Mother's Day gift to me and it was a hit, my mom cried while reading too.
Andrea Beaty has written a children's book for children and adults alike. It features an endearing character, Rosie, and her desperate hope of becoming an engineer. It's a whimsical tale told with lyrical words and gorgeous art. It's inspiring, moving, and might even be my favorite children's book I've ever read. Just don't tell Corduroy. I really appreciated that young Rosie has big dreams and even though the dream seems too big, it takes just one person and the perfect words to spark her spirit once again after a failure leads her to calling it quits. I absolutely recommend this children's short and will be purchasing it, and the other two books, for all future baby shower and kid's birthday gifts. -
This young creator is a great-great-niece of Rosie the Riveter! After a visit from her aunt, she decides to take on one of the biggest goals she never achieved - to fly! Rosie gets to work building her very own flying device and learns from her aunt that the only true failure is that of giving up. What kind of inventions would you and your little one create together? Could you challenge yourselves to dream up something that has never been thought of before? Enjoy this one now by checking out a copy on Mymcpl.org or searching for it on Overdrive! – Reviewed by Stephanie at MCPL Reading Rocket
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Have wanted to read this for ages and I adored it. So fabulous to read a book that references Rosie the Riveter and also features details of real women in aviation. But that aside, the story and message are wonderful and the illustrations are gorgeous. Joe loved it, although he was a bit upset when Rosie's uncle laughed at her invention...
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Favorite quote: "The only true failure can come if you quit." Another great addition to this series by Beaty and Roberts that celebrates "the pursuit of one's passion with persistence." Can't wait to round out this experience with Ada Twist, Scientist!
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Another one that made me 😭
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Another great children’s book about encouraging your children in their passions to do great things.
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Excellent artwork.
Great message! -
Any book that supports girls becoming Engineers is okay with me. They just needed more confidence in Rosie. I did love all of the facts about women and flying. Very cool.
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I finally read
Rosie Revere, Engineer and ended up liking it better than I expected based on the cover. Perhaps it's because Rosie reminds me so much of my son with all of her inventions and creative use of building materials ;-) I appreciated that the "girl power" element was present but not too forced (the inclusion of the Rosie the Riveter figure as her grandmother was nice) and I think boys and girls could both enjoy the story. Unfortunately, the illustrations were quite jarring for me. Also, I've been trying to figure out what aspect of the story keeps nagging at me and I think it's the "laughing at failure" bit. I think it's a great message for children (anyone) to learn to take their failures in stride, with a sense of humor, as a stepping stone toward better success. But, I do think that laughing at someone *else's* failure is... maybe not such a good idea? Unless you are really good friends and know that your laughter will not be misinterpreted as derision? I don't know, maybe I am not giving young readers enough credit here and they can sort through the message to the heart of the matter. Overall, this book not destined to become a favorite thought I can see why it is popular right now and I do think it has merit for the right reader. -
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts – Inspiring, creative, inventions, and self confidence… love the messages: “Don’t let others make you lose sight of your ambition.” Beautiful illustrations, fantastic characters, and humourous creative inventions all combine to a powerfully wonderful book. I loved how there was a lovely, easy to read, fact page about women’s history connections to airplanes. Lovely read aloud that connects to non-fiction book topics- flight, transport, women’s history, inventions and more. I was very disappointed that I didn’t already have a copy of Iggy Peck, Architect, another book added to the ordering list. Cannot wait to read this as well.
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My granddaughter's name is Rosie, and her parents are both engineers, so I got this for her. I haven't decided if it will be for Christmas or her birthday in February, to go with the Rosie the Riveter cap and t-shirt I got for her ... or do I mean them? 🤔 This is a darling book, whether or not your name is Rosie and you (or your parents!) have aspirations for your daughter (or son!) to be an engineer.
It is a cute rhyming book about building and persistence even when you don't succeed at first. Both of daughters were more mechanically gifted when they were little and would have loved this book, so if your child leans this way, I highly recommend it! -
Loved the illustrations and the rhyme, but not as much as I loved the message of seeing failures as learning experiences and the wonderful bit of WWII history. So glad I picked this book up.
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Inspired by the figure of Rosie the Riveter, a fictional icon of World-War-II-era America which became a symbol of the women on the home-front who pitched in and worked at factories and on farms, in order to aid in the war effort, author Andrea Beaty here spins a tale of a young girl inventor and the great-great aunt who helps her to understand the importance of carrying on in the face of initial setbacks. A born tinkerer and engineer, Rosie Revere liked to spend her nights putting things together in her attic. Shy about sharing her inventions, especially after she misinterpreted an uncle's laughter when he saw the hat she had made him, Rosie eventually came to doubt whether she had what it took to become an engineer. Then her Great-Great-Aunt Rose, who was one of those WWII women, came to visit, and inspired her to try again. Would a setback on this second project put an end to Rosie's newly revived ambitions? Not with Aunt Rose around...
After finding author Andrea Beaty and illustrator David Roberts' previous picture-book collaboration,
Iggy Peck, Architect, rather unappealing - the artwork didn't speak to me, I found the rhyming text clunky, and I thought the use of the teacher as a convenient punching bag was cliched (not to mention irritating) - I was really quite surprised to find that I enjoyed Rosie Revere, Engineer. Here there was no stodgy stereotype of an authority figure for the young heroine to overcome. Rather, the adults around Rosie are supportive of her dreams, even when she doesn't at first realize it. I liked the messages implicit in this story, from the idea that initial failures should be celebrated as first steps, rather than mourned as the beginning of the end, to the notion that adults and children often perceive the same events in very different lights, leading to unfortunate misunderstandings. I also appreciated the rhyming text, which felt far more natural here than in the previous book, and which would make this an excellent read-aloud. Finally, I enjoyed the multimedia artwork here, and am not sure how to account for the difference in my aesthetic appreciation, between this and the Iggy book, as they are done in the same style. However that may be, I thought David Roberts' quirky illustrations, created in watercolor, pen and ink (with the occasional use of graph paper), suited the story, and captured the frenetic pace of Rosie's inventive process, as well as the intense emotional states through which she passes.
Recommended to anyone who is looking for children's stories featuring young people's inventiveness, inter-generational partnership, and the importance of perseverance in the face of initial failure. -
Een prentenboek met grappige tekeningen vol details. Een boek dat ook in de week tegen pesten past. Een boek met verschillende emoties.
Een boek over een meisje met veel fantasie, beetje verlegen en met minder zelfvertrouwen. Roza heeft een droom. Dit meisje wil ingenieur worden maar durft dat niet in de klas te zeggen. Ze is uitgelachen. Door een volwassene zelfs.
Roza ziet in allerlei weggegooide spullen en restmaterialen de onderdelen voor de wonderlijkste apparaten. Wie kan er een worstjes-op-brood-automaat of een kaashoed tegen slangen ontwerpen? Roza dus, maar ze verstopt haar uitvindingen.
Totdat een overgroottante arriveert: je stelt jezelf doelen en die ga je dan halen.' Roza gaat weer aan de slag met de kaaskopter. Ze durft weer, valt èn staat weer op: doorzetten en het gaat lukken! Je haalt je doel, ga ervoor! 'Fout gaat het pas als je hebt opgegeven!'
Een heerlijk prentenboek waarin heel veel te ontdekken valt en om keer op keer voor te lezen. De zinnen zijn op rijm geschreven en de tekst is vertaald door Edward van de Vendel met misschien een kleine afwijking in rijmschema maar hoe knap gedaan!
Dit is het verhaal van Roza Rozeur en wie is niet benieuwd naar een volgend verhaal - binnenkort - van deze dappere, leuke, doorzettende ingenieur? -
Ik had al Ada Twist gelezen, en ik ben blij dat een van mijn bibliotheken eindelijk deze had, dan wel in het Nederlands, maar ach. :P Ik moet echt dit boek in het Engels kopen, en dan ook meteen Iggy Pecky doen, zodat ik alle 3 de boeken heb. Dit was een leuk, lief, en motiverend boek over een meisje dat ingenieur wilt worden maar nog niet snapt dat je soms moet falen om verder te komen. Ik vond haar uitvindingen superleuk om te zien. De tekeningen? Prachtig, maar ik verwacht ook niks anders van deze illustrator!
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a lyrical and inspiring tale of a little girl and her friends who learn to keep on creating and to find the progress & learnings out of failures
this reads very quickly and rhymes so it's great for pre-school age. One star-off for the busyness of the drawings which are a little overwhelming. -
After finding Lamby pulling out armfuls of tools from Daddy's toolbox this evening, for an unidentified project, we decided this was the best book for tonight's read aloud book.
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I liked everything about it.The artwork was terrific.
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Sanaya Talks Books:
I like the Questioneers series because I like science and engineering as well as art and the books feel like the combination of both subjects. I also like it because the books are like poems. The sentences rhymes. It was fun to read them.
Premise of the books:
The questioneer series is a lovely set of books, each book telling the story of one child who questions, thinks and acts! There are five characters in the series as of now, each book dedicated to that one character.
We have Ada, who always questions things with What, Why, When and How and shows traits to be a scientist. Then we have Rosie who wants to be engineer. She tinkers and tries to come up with new inventions. There is Sofia, who shows signs that she will be an activist one day with her actions to create change in the society. There is also Iggy, who loves to build and hence wants to be nothing but an architect. A new book in the series is about Aaron, a dyslexic child who loves stories but can't differentiate written words. To tell his stories he takes the route of art.
Learnings from the books:
These are picture books with colorful illustrations which are very funnily depicted. Just the illustrations would have the children cackling with laughter. The stories are all narrated in rhyming pattern thus making it fun for kids to listen to them.
Each character's picture book also has a corresponding workbook available, which is a great resource to enhance the kids' creativity and imagination.
Each book is a treasure trove of sweet messages. Where, Rosie Revere, Engineer teaches us that "Life's true failure comes when you quit" ; Ada Twist, Scientist taught us that it's ok to ask questions and to have a curious mind. Sofia Valdez, Future Prez was a book which showed kids what courage truly is. She teaches us that "Being brave means doing the thing you must do, though your heart cracks with fear".
Mommy's Verdict:
These books are fun without being preachy and yet teach the kids something important. Do give these books a try.
For full review of the series you can check my blog at
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I'm choosing to review this on based on a video not on the book itself. I do this to promote the videos and because I really like the story.
Story Time From Space uploaded
a video with Astronaut Kate Rubins reading Rosie Revere, Engineer. It is a strong story emphasising the importance of failure to success. The use of Rosie the Riveter and a young female engineer adds a feministic aspect for those interested or looking for books with strong female characters. I like the art it's cutesie. There is an excessive amount of Cheez Whiz. But it is just repetition, that is common in picture story. The rhyme works well well spoken aloud but I can see how it could be frustrating to read on a page.On the Story Time From Space videos I can see them being used in libraries in libraries or educational institutions as time tie in space or STEM themes. It would really work best if the institution has a copy of the book and make it an odd form of read to.
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Meet Rosie, the great-great-niece of the heroine Rosie the Riveter, who enjoys building different gadgets and gizmos. Rosie wants to become an engineer when she grows up! She is always trying to make new things, however when people laugh for joy at her inventions she mistakes that for people laughing at her inventions instead. Rosie wants to give up every time someone laughs or her ideas fail on the first try. Luckily she is related to Rosie the Riveter who celebrates her failures as opportunities to learn! This wonderful story is told in rhyming verse which makes it fun and easy to read. I especially loved the content of the story with it's strong female characters and can do attitude. My daughter was enthralled with the ideas captured in the pages! This is a great read for any adult or child that teaches the timeless adage that you can do anything!
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