Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters (Questioneers Chapter Books, #1) by Andrea Beaty

Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters (Questioneers Chapter Books, #1) Reviews

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  Darla

  This chapter book series is a worthy step up for the kids who loved the picture books about Rosie, Ada and Iggy. In this installment, Rosie gets to meet more of her Great Aunt Rose's fellow riveters and collaborate to help a friend. Girl power is riding high and the reader is reminded often that a failure is still a win and the breaks she takes to "Stop and Think." Love the additional info about valves to improve STEAM knowledge, the "About the Riveters" history details and finally the "Think About This" section to inspire conversation between generations. Well done!
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  Jillian Heise

  Will be adding to my transitional chapter book section for sure.
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  Alicia

  I can't wait to see the final version with all of the additional drawings interspersed in this chapter book featuring the intelligent and uplifting Rose Revere.
  
  In this story she meets her Aunt Rose and her friends who were riveters during World War II and they must help come up with a contraption to help save the day. Less STEM and more imagination and heart, it incorporates all of the perseverance we want in a middle grade to show that with teamwork, humor, and a bad of merry friends, anything is possible. And I want to pull out my red kerchief and throw it around my hair!
  
  I can read these all day long because they're positive and fun and we need more of that in life. Everything is a challenge and a learning experience, not a setback.
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  Lian

  After Beaty's illustrious rhyming PBs, this was kind of a disappointment. It's still fun and the illustrations are, of course, great--but the prose lacks that certain something, and I found the story distracting and unclear--with too much waffle/too many smoking guns at times, and too many uninteresting/unnecessary sub-threads. For me, the historical references are fascinating, but they would be lost on this age group, and I think their references were wedged too awkwardly into the narrative. Maybe the addendum page on its own would have been enough (but even then...). Overall, this book could do with a good text/plot tighten, and I suspect it was overworked by too many people (my editor hat on), leaving frequently tortured text. If I struggled with an unclear narrative, I'm sure kids will get lost. I guess there's a lesson here that one genre doesn't necessarily automatically translate to another.
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  Brooke

  I am just absolutely in love with this series, both the picture books and the chapter books. They're absolutely delightful. I love the stories and the illustrations. They bring me joy. Highly recommend.
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  Jenn Sorenson

  This is such a fantastic book, filled with all kinds of lessons: history, science, problem-solving and friendship. I can't wait to read more and share with my 3rd graders. The audiobook was especially fun!
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  Sandra Morello

  My kids LOVE these books and the Netflix series. Rosie Revere is an homage to the women who worked in factories during World War II. This specific book ruminates around persistence, planning, and experimentation. Sure, the goal for these books is to heighten exposure to STEM for little girls, but my 6 year old son loves them just as much. My hope is that reading these to him will enable him to treat girls equally in school now, and in his future career. Solid 5 stars for young readers!
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  DaNae

  Engineered to solve the issues.
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  bts lover

  I loved this book because Rosie is a engineer like my dad.
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  Hana Muraoka

  It was easy to read for me.
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  Ashley Verity

  Read this to your children!
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  John

  This concept picture book revolves around the positive trait of persistence in planning and experimentation while pursuing desirable goals. It invites, with positively exemplary role models, girls into the STEM subject areas of study and achievement. Strictly speaking, it is also fantasy because the art work contradicts principles of physics while showing us the machinery built by a young child (Terrell A. Young 2020, p.103,148). This book is for all like to discover how our inventions function and who may also imagine how they can be improved or surpassed by better contraptions and more experimentation.
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  Steph

  A quick, fun, STEAM- filled read! Awesome for Growth Mindset, too! Love that creative, imperfect, thoughtful little Rosie!
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  Jenneffer

  Really great book! Nice combination of facts, drawings, characters, and plotline. We stayed up late reading this last night because I couldn't bear to put it down. Highly recommended, can't wait to read the next title in the series!
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  Aneesa

  To be honest, I missed most of this book. But I liked it in theory!
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  Anthony Buck

  Lovely book with a nice message. For me this wasn't quite up to the level of ada twist, but that was an exceptional book.
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  Jeimy

  Rosie Revere, Iggy Peck, and Ada Twist now have a chapter book to appeal to older (yet still very young) readers. In a wink-wink nudge-nudge homage to Rosie's namesake, Rosie the Riveter, Rosie must help her aunt and her aunt's friends who were riveter. Can Rosie invent a contraption that will save the day? Read on to find out.
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  Jeanne Wald

  I had a lot of fun reading “Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters”, the first chapter book in a new series, “The Questioneers”, by Andrea Beaty.
  
  The story is a great combination of funky inventions (e.g. SnakeAway, a snake-scaring machine), quirky characters (like Rosie’s great-great-aunt flying on a cheese-copter or her joyful friends, the Raucous Riveters, who built airplanes during the World War II), as well as great messages (dealing with pressure, the power of friendship, overcoming fears). In addition, the book pictures the real process of engineering: brainstorming, research, sketching ideas, design, making prototypes, testing and redesign based on performance.
  
  The main character Rosie is a creative and ambitious little engineer. She loves building machines from old gears, wires, and broken motors, and she gives her models hilarious names (Foolhardyflop, Creative Catastrophe, Magnificent Mess, etc.). Her inventions often fail, but Rosie never gives up. Her perseverance is really admirable.
  
  Rosie must prove it one more time when the Raucous Riveters desperately need her help to build a painting machine that would allow a riveter with broken wrists to participate in a mural painting contest. Together with her project-minded and supportive friends, Ada Twist and Iggy Peck, Rosie works really hard and even finds enough courage to approach a person she’s been scared of for a long time.
  
  This book is an ode to the millions of women who worked in factories of all allied nations during the World War II, building airplanes, ships and tanks and making guns and bullets needed for the war effort. It’s very special for me, as my paternal grandmother was one of those women.
  
  I find it helpful that there’s a lot of extra information about the female riveters at the end of the book as well as an encouragement for kids to talk with older people and learn their stories.
  
  This fast-paced story with fun 2-color illustrations, which include Rosie’s own doodles and notes, will be perfect for all budding inventors!
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  McKenzie Richardson

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  I read
  Rosie Revere, Engineer a few years ago and enjoyed it. I saw this at the library and had to see what it was all about.
  
  I loved this book. It's everything I loved about the Rosie Revere picture book with more detail. My only issue with the picture book was that it was a bit vague and felt rushed. I liked reading it, but I loved this chapter book format. So much more happened and you got to know the characters better. I also love that Ada Twist from
  Ada Twist, Scientist and Iggy Peck from
  Iggy Peck, Architect are featured in the series. It is so cool to see the group of characters as friends who solve problems together.
  
  Great story. Loved all the messages of working together, stopping to think, perseverance, helping others, and thinking outside the box. I could not put this book down. I honestly read it all this morning in one sitting.
  
  At the end of the book is some bonus material including an "Ode to a Valve" (which was adorable and amazing!) as well as more information about valves and the actual Riveters.
  
  Such a great book to encourage interest in STEM fields. Fun, creative series. I will definitely be continuing the series. Love it!
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  poorlilnadina

  My four year old son and I absolutely LOVE this book. The perfect accompaniment/transition from the picture book, "Rosie Revere, Engineer," I love how this early chapter books digs deeper into Rosie's life and process as a budding engineer. Further developing her friendships with Ada Twist and Iggy Peck, as well as the adults and mentors in her life, Rosie (like Ada) shows readers that failure is a path to success. My son, who is utterly obsessed with fans, pumps, wheels, and gears loves the drawings (especially in Rosie's notebook), and the challenge/mystery of Rosie formulating a solution to the problem she faces. As a parent, I love that the main character is a young girl who lives with her aunts and uncles rather than her parents (and that the fact is not thematic or a plot line) because it shows my son that girls are just as interesting, smart, and adventurous as boys, that friendships with girls are great, that families all look different, and that mistakes are just stepping stones toward solutions - if we learn from them and don't dwell on them. Lots of questions about what brainstorming is came from this story and we loved the poem about valves at the end of the book. Beaty is a good writer who knows how to capture both adult and child audiences with enthusiasm, humour, and a sense of whimsy, this book is educational, inspiring, fun and easy to read while also introducing more complex concepts. We cannot wait for more books in The Questioneers series.
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  Megan Willome

  
  Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters
  Andrea Beaty
  
  If you have a girl who likes to build and experiment, who think she might like to be an engineer, this story is for you. Rosie likes to create using, well, whatever hoses or springs or curtain rings or valves she can find. She’s also unafraid of failure. She documents each attempt in her engineer’s journal, noting when it’s a Fantastic Flop and when it’s a success. The story is great at showing the trial and error inherent in making new things.
  
  Rosie and her friends help her Aunt Rose by designing a painting machine for Rose’s friend June. The older women in the story were all riveters in World War II, and they are Rosie’s inspiration. It’s a fun blend of history and storytelling, as the older generation entrusts a complicated engineering task to the younger one.
  
  The end of the book also has great endnotes: one on the character of Rosie the Riveter, one on how valves work, and one that is a funny little poem titled Ode to a Valve.
  
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  Diane

  “Sometimes, Rosie’s weirdest ideas made her think in a new way or solved tiny bits of a big problem.”
  
  Rosie Revere loves to help people solve their problems. That’s why she’s trying to invent something to help her Uncle Fred with his problem. He’s a zookeeper and all the snakes just seem to be drawn to him. He can’t keep them away. Rosie has gone through 6 generations of her Snakeaway idea, but still hasn’t found the answer. But that’s okay, because Rosie knows you only fail if you stop trying.
  
  Enter the Blue River Riveters. They have an emergency that they need Rosie’s help with. One of the riveters, June, is a painter and always participates in the Art-a-Go-Go. This year, though, she has both of her wrists in casts. How can she paint like that? It’s up to Rosie to build a solution.
  
  Chock full of scientific bits of info (like how valves work) and modeling the design process, this is a quick read for kids who love to design and build. Rosie is a spunky, persistent character with friends who understand her and help when they can. Includes an author’s note in the back about the real Rosie Riveter.
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  Martha

  Rosie Revere and her fellow "questioners" Iggy Peck, and Ada Twist are back for a new purposeful invention challenge. Her great, great Aunt Rose and her Blue River Riveters friends, a group of women formed during World War II, to build B-29 bombers, has a problem. One of the Riveters has broken both wrists and needs their aid in inventing a tool to make it possible for her to participate in the Art-A-Go-Go contest in two days. Undeterred by the timing and difficulty, the team tries one idea after another, never giving up. Illustrator extrodinaire, David Robert's grid paper illustrations of their many plans, serve as a perfect introduction for how to design a project in 2-dimension before actually creating the invention in three dimmension. The can do attitude of this team has just enough problems to make it credible. Helping the Riveters is a great message about the joy derived from helping others, for the young future STEAM designers of the future. The focus on using your imagination, and working together as a team makes this a winner.
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  Dawn

  Rosie Revere, Ada Twist, and Iggy Peck are the Questioneers, three kiddos who love STEM and love to ask questions.
  
  In the first book of the series, Rosie agrees to design a contraption that will help a woman with broken wrist to paint. Like any good engineer, she brainstorms, draws diagrams, makes prototypes, tests all of her models, refines, then starts again. Her friends help her when she gets stuck.
  
  Honestly, this book is almost perfect. The pictures are cute. I love all of the notes that Rosie makes on her graph paper. It teaches the scientific method, shows Rosie’s perseverance, demonstrates the importance of teamwork, and includes a bit of women’s lib/girl power.
  
  Only thing I didn’t like is that there are a couple of references to things that (I think) happened in the picture book, and that aren’t explained well. This is the first in the series, so everything should be explained. Not everyone will have read the picture book or remember it.
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  Valerie McEnroe

  Based on the popular picture book series about the engineer, the scientist and the architect. This is the easy chapter book version. The best thing about this series are the illustrations. Very cool black and white drawings with accents of red. There's also pages of graph paper where Rosie writes her own sketches and notes.
  
  Rosie is the engineer. She loves the problem-solving process. Her great-great-aunt Rose introduces Rosie to the raucous riveters, a group of old women who still have a lot of spunk. One of the former WW2 riveters has broken both her wrists and can't compete in the painting competition this year. Rosie is determined to design a contraption to solve the problem.
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  Brandy

  Wonderful! A great transition from the picture book to a chapter book format, with all the same magic intact. I loved the way the process of engineering (prototypes, failures, and tinkering) and information on rivets and valves were integrated into the story. David Roberts’ illustrations were spectacular as usual, with some little details (buttons, poster in Rosie’s room) that were perfect. And bravo to Andrea Beaty for including such a wonderful, diverse group of older ladies as characters (an age group not well represented in children’s books, other than grandmas) - loved the little bit at the end about asking older folks in your community about their lifetimes of stories.