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I thought this book was very funny and somewhat realistic. As I have a young nephew, the whole bad baby features are somewhat true. I found the book catchy and cute.

I really enjoyed this book, about taking chances and believing in yourself. Cute ending too!

Listened to Dolly Parton read this as part of her "Goodnight With Dolly" series. I love her soothing voice and how she always sings a little. https://donate.imaginationlibrary.com/goodnight-with-dolly/

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

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!

The book talked about an extraordinary girl who is interested in building machines. It is a realistic fiction because the story can be real, but the plots may be imagined by the author. The girl in this story has no friend and is bullied verbally by his schoolmates because of her interests and her coverall that she wears every day. However, the girl becomes famous because she uses her aircraft save others. From this perspective, children can learn how to respect differences. For educators also we can learn how to treat with gifted children. The book can be used in reading class.

The little girl Violet liked working with mechanics and she created different things and they got more interesting as she got older. She saw a poster for an air show and built her plane. While going to the show she saved people in a river and took them to the hospital but she missed the show. Then the people in her town came to thank her.
Media: colored pencil?

This book is the story of a little girl, named Violet, who was incredibly smart and a great builder. She could make flying machines out of anything and saved a group of boy scouts from a canoeing incident. Kids at school made fun of her for sitting by herself but word got out about her rescue and she got a medal of valor and everyone praised her heroic act.

This book is a good example of fantasy because a child could not actually invent the things that Violet does or save Boy Scouts from a river.

Violet loved to fly homemade machines and one day she stopped to help a boy scout troop while flying in one that she made. She was later given a medal of honor for helping them.

Genre: Fiction
Summary: This book was about a little girl who loved inventing things. People made fun of her, but she never gave up. At the end she created a flying machine and used it to save people, winning her an award!!
Use in classroom: This is a fun stem book, showing that girls can also be inventors!
Age appropriateness: primary and intermediate

Media: Color pencils
Grade level: Elementary and primary
Review: This book is about Violet a young girl who is incredibly smart when it comes to tinkering and building things. She is so smart she starts inventing and creating tools to help with chores. Eventually, she creates a small machine to help her fly and she loves it, she continues in the book to create more aircrafts and to then make them more efficient, eventually, she goes on to enter a competition for the best aircraft made, but unfortunately she was not able to make it because she went off route to save some people who were in danger. She then was recognized for her courageous act and given an honor emblem.

Great book about being unique and ignoring bullies with fun but fictional inventions

In the book "A Perfect Mess", there is a character named Henry who is a boy who is always messy. For picture day, Henry makes sure he stays as clean as possible so he does not look messy in the picture. He tries to sit in the back of the room at school and not make a mess but ends up spilling ink all over his classmates. He also sneezed and ended up spilling something on a student and a whole cycle of spilling happened with the other students in the class. For the class picture, Henry was the only clean student in the picture. After the picture was taken, his classmates gave Henry a group hug to make sure he got messy too.

This book is about a girl named Violet who loves to build things, engineer flying planes, balloons, and bikes, and who's only friend is her dog Orville. Violet is teased by the kids at school which makes her feel pretty poorly, so she decides to enter in a flying competition with one of her flying creations, but she instead ends up rescuing a boy scout troop and misses the competition. In the end Violet is recognized for her heroism because she misses the competition, and people love her for that and her engineered creations. This book is a good book because it shows a courageous young girl who builds crazy flying machines that would never work in real life, but do in the book.
Illustrations:Watercolor and acrylic paint, colored pencil, and Photoshop
Genre: Fantasy (my choice)
Age Appropriateness: Primary-3rd grade

Fantasy
Review: Violet's mechanical skills have been extraordinary from the time she was born, and she put them to use building planes. She enters the air show with plans to win it, but along the way, she makes the decision to save some people in a river instead of fly in the show.
Critique: It is a good fantasy because it showed that kids should not be afraid to do anything through Violet's ability to build, which kids aren't able to do. It is also a good fantasy because it brought in a very good discussion topic in bullying to the surface.

This was a good, lighthearted book about staying clean for picture day. I would use this for intermediate and primary grades (1st-4th) and would read it on picture day or a day when we do messy activities. I think that on that day the kids would find it humorous and relatable.

This book is about a young rhino named Henry who has a habit of getting dirty. One day, because this is a special day at school Henry is told to keep clean; throughout the course of the day he ends up getting the whole class dirty unintentionally. This book personified the rhino and everyone else in such a way that they are relatable to the ready. Although the exposition of the story is simplistic it is appropriate to the age group that it is targeting.

It's been many years since I celebrated the pitch-perfect humor of Steve Breen's Stick. Although he's done many things over the years, it's only now that I see, once again, that hilarious sense of humor and perfect timing show up in a picture book again - and this time his art style and writing has developed much further.

Benny the woodpecker wants a waffle. He's never had one before, he's not even sure what they are, but they smell oh-so-good and he's willing to do anything to get one. But no matter what clever plans he tries, he just can't get into the diner! Finally, Benny comes up with the most daring, explosive, dramatic plan ever...not to mention the most sneaky!

What I loved about this story was not just the surprise ending but that it was funny all the way through, which will hold the attention of kids who haven't developed enough to wait for a punch line. Breen's illustrations are light and cheerful with perky animals and jokes for adults to enjoy as well.

Verdict: Time to start planning those woodpecker and waffle storytimes!

ISBN: 9780062342577; Published 2016 by Harper; Borrowed from another library in my consortium

Cute!

I thought this was a lovely picture book with beautiful illustrations. The story reminds me of Molly Lou Melon who uses her imagination and is very creative while inventing things. Violet is a young eight year old who can fix most anything and is able to build machines that fly from junk! This story can be used to help empower young girls and let them know that it is ok to be creative and play with things other than dolls.

This is a wonderful little book about a little girl who is very interested in inventing and flying, and wants to win a prize for flying, but ends up winning a prize for rescuing people instead. This would be a good level for a third or fourth grader to read, with some new words that they might not have known before. There are a couple of pages that show a picture sequence and only tell what happened at the beginning and end, and all the pictures throughout the book go along very nicely with the story, so the reader can tell what is going on at all times, even maybe glean the meaning of a new word form the pictures.

Benny the Woodpecker awakens to the most heavenly smell one morning, following it to the newly opened 'Moe's: Home of the Hot Waffle Breakfast.' But his attempts to get in the door and to get some of those delicious waffles are baffled by the waitress, who continually ejects him from the premises. The other animals are amused by Benny's troubles, and try to convince him that woodpeckers don't eat waffles. Not to be dissuaded, Benny uses a cunning stratagem to fool both his fellow forest dwellers and the humans inside Moe's.

An entertaining tale, one which features an amusing ending - Benny is one clever woodpecker, managing to fool everyone! - Woodpecker Wants a Waffle would make an excellent story-time selection. It's the sort of book that rewards a closer examination. In fact, as someone who always scans the colophon for any information about the medium used in a picture-book's illustrations, I was amused to see a little joke contained in that short description. Recommended to anyone looking for engaging picture-books featuring funny stories, as well as to any waffle lovers out there!

Genre: Contemporary modern fantasy
Medium: watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil and photoshop
This is a story about a little girl who loved to build and take things apart. She didn't have friends, but she had her dog by her side. From a young age she took things apart, and put them back together. She started building flying things. She decided to enter in a plane show, but on the way there, she saved a boy scout troop from drowning. She missed the plane show, but that night everyone came to her house and thanked her. This is a good example of contemporary modern fantasy, because it is relatable to students in the present, but it couldn't happen. I like this book, because the little girl is an inventor, which isn't typically a girls role. This would be a good book to use with a classroom if boys and girls thought that because of gender roles, they couldn't do certain things.

Summary: this book is about a sweet little girl who is bullied by her classmates because she is different than everyone else. She is a genius who is building an aeroplane to win an award to make her classmates like her. When it comes to the time of the show she gets stopped along the way because some boy scouts are in danger of going over a waterfall. She saves them but isn't able to make it to the show. She is really sad and heads home. That night the mayor and city show up on her doorstep to give her a prize.

Use: To teach about bullying, to introduce a lesson about invention.

Media: Colored Pencil

This is an awesome picture book that tells a story about Violet, who is a mechanical genius and loves building all kinds of machines like flying contraptions. There’s one day when she was going to take part in an air show, she found some soldiers in dangerous and she chosen to rescue them instead of taking part in an air show, which let she became a little hero and knew by a lot of people. All in all, this realism story uses water colored pictures to tell children they should help others especially when they in troubles.