Who is that energetic girl, anyway?
Geraldine is a true dreamer who loves science and wants to be an astronaut someday. However, this little second-grader dreams so much that she has a terrible time paying attention at school. That is until her teacher announces something that immediately catches her attention.
Class,” she announced, “we are going to have a science contest. The winner will receive a first-place trophy and the title of Best Second-Grade Scientist!”
Geraldine stopped drawing a spaceship and listened carefully.
Every year we award a special trophy to the student who creates the most remarkable science project.
Though she is labeled feisty and a troublemaker in her class, she now has a mission. She couldn’t get home quick enough to start her project. She thought by winning she might show her class that she wasn’t a troublemaker.
Because of her love of science, she had collected broken parts of her parents’ old gadgets and gizmos. Surely constructing an amazing contraption would be simple. Or would it?
Geraldine is a true dreamer who loves science and wants to be an astronaut someday.
Details
- Title: Geraldine and the Most Spectacular Science Project
- Author: Sol Regwan
- Illustrator: Denise Muzzio
- Publisher: Schiffer Kids (February 28, 2020)
- Pages: 32
- Click to take a look inside!
My Thoughts
It turns out that this book is harder to review than I thought it would be. I’m still trying to wrap my mind around a few things, but rather than go into details here, I’m going to write more than I usually do under the headings below.
What Concerned Me
- Is she thought of as a troublemaker because A) she isn’t getting enough science taught in class, or B) she is better with more hands-on projects? I didn’t quite get the correlation between troublemaker and the need to succeed and prove that she wasn’t a troublemaker.
- Though I can suspend disbelief about her creation, it would have been really good to introduce side notes about binoculars. And in order to make it even more of a science-friendly book, it would have been nice to include information about the other children’s inventions: erupting volcano, remote-controlled solar system, and a miniature ecosystem.
What I Liked Best
This is a great story to introduce imagination, creation, and science. The colors used on the cover and inside pages are eye-catching and should pull little ones into the pages.
If used to introduce the aspect of inventing and creating, and if you examine the various creations that the children make, it can be a very effective teaching tool. Also, a good book to open the topic of creativity and imagination.
My thanks to Schiffer Publishing for a copy of this book and the ability to post a review.
About the Author and Illustrator
Sol Regwan is an optometrist who loves to write. He is the author of two successful children’s books, The Adventures of Pugley Bear and Dylan and His Magical Robot. Each of his stories teaches children a valuable lesson or moral.
Denise Muzzio was born in 1990 and spent her early childhood drawing and surrounded by books. When she grew up, she decided to study graphic design, illustration, and animation to keep that inner child alive. She is also a yoga teacher and lives in Rosario, Argentina, working as a freelance designer and illustrator specializing in children’s literature. Visit her at www.denisemuzzio.com
