Rosie Revere, Engineer
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty takes about 7 minutes to read aloud (793 words, about 3 sentences a page), and it lands best with children aged 4-8.
Measured read-aloud timeabout 7 minutes
- Words
- 793
- Sentences a page
- 3
- Re-read tolerance
- 4/5survives a fortnight on repeat
- Vocabulary
- 4/5stretching
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Why Rosie Revere, Engineer works
Rosie builds in secret because someone once laughed at a cheese-copter she made, and her great-great-aunt Rose tells her the only true failure is quitting - said in rhyme, so it does not read as a lecture. The flop of the helicopter at the end is the point: it flew, briefly, and that counted.
Before you buy it
793 rhyming words with a vocabulary that stretches - gizmos, contraptions, perpendicular. A four-year-old will need you to keep moving; sixes get the most from it.
Themes: engineering, failure, perseverance, rhyme, inventing.
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Questions parents ask about Rosie Revere, Engineer
- How long does it take to read Rosie Revere, Engineer aloud?
- About 7 minutes at an unhurried pace, from a word count of 793. Reading it fast shaves perhaps a third off; stopping for questions on every page can double it.
- What age is Rosie Revere, Engineer actually for?
- Ages 4-8 in our testing, which is narrower than the publisher's range. With 3 sentences a page and vocabulary at 4 out of 5, it asks for that much attention span and no more.
- Does Rosie Revere, Engineer survive being read on repeat?
- Yes. It survives a fortnight of nightly repeats, which is the real test.
- Is Rosie Revere, Engineer a good book for a child who will not sit still?
- It helps that it rhymes. Those three features are what keep a wriggling toddler listening, far more than the subject matter does.