Author: Andrea Beaty
Illustrator: David Roberts
© Date: 2018
Publisher: Amulet Books
Pages: 125
Chapters: Yes
Illustrations: Yes, most page layouts have an illustration
Publisher Recommended Age: 6-9 years
Bonus Activities at End of Book: Poem about valves, information about valves, information about riveters, think about this (each book in the series has some relevant information about the theme of the story)
Summary from Book: Iggy Peck, Ada Twist, and Rosie Revere are…The Questioneers.
Rosie Revere is no stranger to flops and fails, kerfuffles and catastrophes. After all, engineering is all about perseverance! But this time, Rosie has a really important project to tackle—one that feels much bigger than herself.
Rosie’s beloved Aunt Rose and her friends, the Raucous Riveters—a group of fun-loving gals who built airplanes during World War II—need help inventing something new. And Rosie is just the engineer for the job!
After one flop…then another…and another…Rosie starts to lose hope. But thanks to some help from her fellow Questioneers Iggy Peck and Ada Twist, Rosie gets the job done. And, along with the Riveters, she rediscovers the meaning of home.
Note: This review is done from memory. I originally read this awhile ago.
Page Pig Thoughts: If you or your child fell in love with Andrea Beaty’s picture books, good news, those favorite characters are now in chapter length books. And don’t worry, while the book descriptions says that Iggy, Ada, and Rosie are the Questioneers, Sofia Valdez and Aaron Slater join the mix with stories of their own.
If you haven’t read any of Andrea Beaty’s books, enjoy meeting a group of kids with heads full of questions and unique skills that solve problems together.
We had fun following the adventures of the Questioneers as they worked to help each other solve questions and help out in their community. STEAM concepts are presented in a mostly easy to understand fashion. I think that there may have been one or two concepts in the series that made me pause and make sure that I understood what was being described. The stories are engaging, but on occasion, bits of Andrea Beaty’s books feel a bit forced and soap boxy. The books are entertaining and educational enough that I can accept a few blips in an otherwise beautiful world that she has created.
Page Pup gives these two thumbs up and has read these several times.
Positive Items:
- The Questioneers work well together as a team. Each one has unique skills that they are comfortable sharing with their peers, and the group seeks out advice from the one that has the most appropriate skills for the questions at hand.
- The children are good friends to each other and their community.
- The children find ways to make a positive difference in their community.
Other Books in Series (At Time of Posting):
- Book 2 – Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants
- Book 3 – Iggy Peck and the Mysterious Mansion
- Book 4 – Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote
- Book 5 – Ada Twist and the Disappearing Dogs
- Book 6 – Aaron Slater and the Sneaky Snake