Title: 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