Steve Breen

Violet is a "mechanical genius," who lives with her parents and her dog, Orville, next to a junkyard her father manages. She loves to build flying machines, and hopes that competing in a local air show will make the kids at school like her. But on the way to the air show, she sees some scouts in trouble on the river, and performs a rescue, missing the air show. She flies home sadly after dropping the boys at the hospital, but that evening, half the town shows up at her house to celebrate her heroism.

See also: Vroom! by Barbara McClintock, Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty, The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires… (mer)

In the story Benny, the woodpecker, smells something delicious and learns that it’s waffles he's craving. The other animals of the forest think he’s crazy. They don’t think that woodpeckers should eat waffles. Benny doesn’t care! He wants what he wants. He devises a plan to get the tasty breakfast treat. Nobody believes he’ll be able to pull it off. But will he?

This was a really cute read and I was rooting Benny on the whole time. We found out there is a “Flat Benny” online that kids can print. Then, they can take Benny to get waffles or some other treat and share the picture with a special hash tag.

I especially liked the ending of this book- clever!

… (mer)