Rosie Revere, Engineer

Description:

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.

subjects: 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,  Inventors, fiction,  nyt:picture-books=2013-09-22,  New York Times bestseller