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Betty Builds It


School year: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

No. of pages 32

Published: 2019

Great for age 5-10 years

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Combining humor and art with STEM subjects of science, technology, and math, Betty Builds It explores a burgeoning friendship between a genius engineering robot girl and her sweet younger brother who just wants to support his sister. Betty could build just about anything. Whatever she needs, she can make it for herself. But with a screen as her parental unit and her baby brother Toby who cant do much, Betty longs for a friendso she builds one! While Toby struggles to get his sisters attention, Betty continues to build and build, until finally she realizes what she was looking for was beside her the whole time. Betty Builds It is a sweet family story of the new friendship between siblings, and also celebrates and promotes women and girls in science.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US kindergarten-3rd grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 2019 by Graphic Arts Books .

Julie Hampton is a children's book author and illustrator, architect, and proud feminist. She creates stories and art that showcase her offbeat humor, and loves to promote girls and women through her work. Julie lives in San Diego, CA.

 

"A female character with robotic engineering skills will be a welcome addition in many classrooms and library collections. You go girl-use those mechanical skills." * Kirkus Reviews *