A Girl Can Build Anything
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- 8,49 €
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- 8,49 €
Publisher Description
A brilliant, inclusive ode to self-expression, girl power, and the many things readers can create.
Have you ever dreamed of building something? Maybe something little—like a birdhouse? Or something big—like a skyscraper? If you can envision it, you can build it! A Girl Can Build Anything is a playful celebration of all the different ways girls can make things—from tinkering to tool wielding, from ideas on paper to big, lived-out dreams that require brick and mortar. This fun and empowering ode to self expression will inspire readers to jump up and immediately start to build. Because they can. They can do anything!
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"A girl can build many things./ A girl can build anything." Employing this emboldening refrain throughout, previous collaborators Charlton-Trujillo and Zietlow Miller (the Lupe Lopez books) empower readers to dream—and build—big in this book boasting a cast of construction-capable girls. As affirming text kicks off with "a vision./ A sketch./ And a plan," digitally collaged tissue paper scenes from Morris (All Aboard the Schooltrain) depict a child, shown with brown skin, drawing in a notebook. In subsequent scenes, a communal cast ranging in abilities, ages, body types, and skin tones works to build a variety of structures, starting with simple objects ("A box?/ A birdhouse?// A bookshelf?") and leading to more elaborate projects, all improvements to an abandoned playground strewn with "caution" tape. Text introduces building materials ("Sheetrock./ Shingles./ Or shutters") as well as tools ("Drivers./ Handles./ Levers") as characters construct a trellis, a table, a tree house, and more. Acknowledging that some projects may lean, wobble, or completely collapse, growth-mindset lines invite creators to return to the drawing board ("Failure isn't final./ It's where new ideas are made"). It's a confidence-boosting look at teamwork that shows the whole as greater than the sum of its parts. Ages 4–8. Authors' agents: (for Charlton-Trujillo) Erin Murphy, Erin Murphy Literary; (for Miller) Ammi-Joan Paquette, Erin Murphy Literary. Illustrator's agent: Claire Easton, Painted Words.
