Iggy Peck, Architect

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In this delightful story, Iggy's love for architecture is tested when his new teacher expresses her dislike for it. Ada Twist, Scientist, the companion picture book featuring the next kid from Iggy Peck's class, is available in September 2016.

Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned. With a penchant for building towers out of dirty nappies from a young age Iggy’s parents knew he was a child of unusual talents. Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first. David is one of the UK’s foremost and respected illustrators having worked on numerous best selling titles for the very best of authors including Philip Ardagh, Andrea Beaty, Peter Bentley, Julian Clary, Julia Donaldson, Carol Anne Duffy, Sally Gardner, Chris Priestly and Michelle Robinson to name a few. Filled with an array of beautiful and elegant drawings, this title poses all manner of architectural challenges for the user: from designing your own skyscraper, to drawing an island house or creating a Constructivist monument, and more.I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books.

Banned from building in school, second grade becomes a bore until one day a fateful field trip lets Iggy Peck show the world his true talents! You guys are such a force for good and I am a passionate supporter of Indie booksellers, so I'm so happy this worked out well (I'd love to know how many books were sold if you have it to hand - it felt like quite a lot!In this sequence of lessons, children will have many opportunities to develop a love of different kinds of buildings and learn some of the key connected vocabulary. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Some of the dialect in all of these books is of course American, but doesn't detract from the stories at all. It is also a super introduction to the Questioneers, a group of children who are role models in different fields, from science to illustration to engineering. They would also only drop off a case of books and leave us to run it – it was so lovely to have you on hand to chat to the children and recommend them books, as well as the small (but appreciated!

From architecture-obsessed IGGY PECK, ARCHITECT to the inventive ROSIE REVERE, ENGINEER to the irrepressible magician in training, Robbie Darko (DORKO THE MAGNIFICENT).

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