March’s book: Rosie Revere, Engineer by author Andrea Beaty and illustrator David Roberts
Join us to celebrate creativity, perseverance, and problem-solving through second-grader, Rosie. When her great-great-aunt Rose 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. In the process, Rosie learns the only real failure for an inventor is giving up.
As General Dwight D. Eisenhower was leading troops to liberate Europe in World War II, thousands of women on America's home front were stepping into new work roles to build all the planes, ships, and equipment our soldiers needed to win the war. They were called Rosie the Riveters and they not only were critical to the success of World War II, but forever changed the opportunities for women in the work force. Additionally, the need for solutions to the many challenges that war presented led to the intentional (and sometimes accidental) of many new inventions. From portable military bridges and computers to the slinky and silly-putty, scientists, engineers, and inventors supplied a steady stream of new products that helped make victory possible.