Ingenious Jean is hammering and banging, drawing and planning, scheming and dreaming. Ingenious Jean is being ingenious. Something to save the world? Something to make everyone's life even more exciting? Or something closer to home but just as ingenious.
This was quite good! There was a lot of repetition and rhyming which is great for lower grades at primary school and keeps them interested to see what the next invention is. I love how it will inspire kids to use their imagination and invent some things of their own. Also, it was lovely to see the 'inventor' main character being a girl, and challenging some stereotypes children may have about science.
For obvious reasons. A Christmas gift in 2009 with some minor changes made by the giver to include the names of all those present. I read it to the assembled group on Christmas night.