I really enjoyed this book, about taking chances and believing in yourself. Cute ending too!

Listened to Dolly Parton read this as part of her "Goodnight With Dolly" series. I love her soothing voice and how she always sings a little. https://donate.imaginationlibrary.com/goodnight-with-dolly/

Violet is a "mechanical genius," who lives with her parents and her dog, Orville, next to a junkyard her father manages. She loves to build flying machines, and hopes that competing in a local air show will make the kids at school like her. But on the way to the air show, she sees some scouts in trouble on the river, and performs a rescue, missing the air show. She flies home sadly after dropping the boys at the hospital, but that evening, half the town shows up at her house to celebrate her heroism.

See also: Vroom! by Barbara McClintock, Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty, The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires ( )

The book talked about an extraordinary girl who is interested in building machines. It is a realistic fiction because the story can be real, but the plots may be imagined by the author. The girl in this story has no friend and is bullied verbally by his schoolmates because of her interests and her coverall that she wears every day. However, the girl becomes famous because she uses her aircraft save others. From this perspective, children can learn how to respect differences. For educators also we can learn how to treat with gifted children. The book can be used in reading class. ( )

The little girl Violet liked working with mechanics and she created different things and they got more interesting as she got older. She saw a poster for an air show and built her plane. While going to the show she saved people in a river and took them to the hospital but she missed the show. Then the people in her town came to thank her.
Media: colored pencil? ( )

This book is the story of a little girl, named Violet, who was incredibly smart and a great builder. She could make flying machines out of anything and saved a group of boy scouts from a canoeing incident. Kids at school made fun of her for sitting by herself but word got out about her rescue and she got a medal of valor and everyone praised her heroic act.

This book is a good example of fantasy because a child could not actually invent the things that Violet does or save Boy Scouts from a river. ( )

Violet loved to fly homemade machines and one day she stopped to help a boy scout troop while flying in one that she made. She was later given a medal of honor for helping them. ( )

Genre: Fiction
Summary: This book was about a little girl who loved inventing things. People made fun of her, but she never gave up. At the end she created a flying machine and used it to save people, winning her an award!!
Use in classroom: This is a fun stem book, showing that girls can also be inventors!
Age appropriateness: primary and intermediate ( )

Media: Color pencils
Grade level: Elementary and primary
Review: This book is about Violet a young girl who is incredibly smart when it comes to tinkering and building things. She is so smart she starts inventing and creating tools to help with chores. Eventually, she creates a small machine to help her fly and she loves it, she continues in the book to create more aircrafts and to then make them more efficient, eventually, she goes on to enter a competition for the best aircraft made, but unfortunately she was not able to make it because she went off route to save some people who were in danger. She then was recognized for her courageous act and given an honor emblem.

Great book about being unique and ignoring bullies with fun but fictional inventions

This book is about a girl named Violet who loves to build things, engineer flying planes, balloons, and bikes, and who's only friend is her dog Orville. Violet is teased by the kids at school which makes her feel pretty poorly, so she decides to enter in a flying competition with one of her flying creations, but she instead ends up rescuing a boy scout troop and misses the competition. In the end Violet is recognized for her heroism because she misses the competition, and people love her for that and her engineered creations. This book is a good book because it shows a courageous young girl who builds crazy flying machines that would never work in real life, but do in the book.
Illustrations:Watercolor and acrylic paint, colored pencil, and Photoshop
Genre: Fantasy (my choice)
Age Appropriateness: Primary-3rd grade

Fantasy
Review: Violet's mechanical skills have been extraordinary from the time she was born, and she put them to use building planes. She enters the air show with plans to win it, but along the way, she makes the decision to save some people in a river instead of fly in the show.
Critique: It is a good fantasy because it showed that kids should not be afraid to do anything through Violet's ability to build, which kids aren't able to do. It is also a good fantasy because it brought in a very good discussion topic in bullying to the surface. ( )

I thought this was a lovely picture book with beautiful illustrations. The story reminds me of Molly Lou Melon who uses her imagination and is very creative while inventing things. Violet is a young eight year old who can fix most anything and is able to build machines that fly from junk! This story can be used to help empower young girls and let them know that it is ok to be creative and play with things other than dolls. ( )

This is a wonderful little book about a little girl who is very interested in inventing and flying, and wants to win a prize for flying, but ends up winning a prize for rescuing people instead. This would be a good level for a third or fourth grader to read, with some new words that they might not have known before. There are a couple of pages that show a picture sequence and only tell what happened at the beginning and end, and all the pictures throughout the book go along very nicely with the story, so the reader can tell what is going on at all times, even maybe glean the meaning of a new word form the pictures.

Genre: Contemporary modern fantasy
Medium: watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil and photoshop
This is a story about a little girl who loved to build and take things apart. She didn't have friends, but she had her dog by her side. From a young age she took things apart, and put them back together. She started building flying things. She decided to enter in a plane show, but on the way there, she saved a boy scout troop from drowning. She missed the plane show, but that night everyone came to her house and thanked her. This is a good example of contemporary modern fantasy, because it is relatable to students in the present, but it couldn't happen. I like this book, because the little girl is an inventor, which isn't typically a girls role. This would be a good book to use with a classroom if boys and girls thought that because of gender roles, they couldn't do certain things.

Summary: this book is about a sweet little girl who is bullied by her classmates because she is different than everyone else. She is a genius who is building an aeroplane to win an award to make her classmates like her. When it comes to the time of the show she gets stopped along the way because some boy scouts are in danger of going over a waterfall. She saves them but isn't able to make it to the show. She is really sad and heads home. That night the mayor and city show up on her doorstep to give her a prize.

Use: To teach about bullying, to introduce a lesson about invention.

Media: Colored Pencil ( )

This is an awesome picture book that tells a story about Violet, who is a mechanical genius and loves building all kinds of machines like flying contraptions. There’s one day when she was going to take part in an air show, she found some soldiers in dangerous and she chosen to rescue them instead of taking part in an air show, which let she became a little hero and knew by a lot of people. All in all, this realism story uses water colored pictures to tell children they should help others especially when they in troubles. ( )

Genre: Fantasy
Art: Watercolor/Ink and Wash
Summary: This book tells us a story of a young girl who is talented in mechanics. She even is able to design and build airplanes. In oder to take part in a air show, she put great efforts in designing and making a airplane. Because of some reasons, she missed the air show. However, finally, she got well-known to everyone.
I think this is a good fantasy picture book. Because the story author tells us is inspirational. There are ups and downs in this story. We are able to follow the journey of heroine. Additionally, the design of pictures and words are accurate and simple. ( )

This is a fantasy picture book. A little girl called Violet was gifted in making flying machine. But because she was different from other girls in the town, she had no friend in the school except her dog Orville. One day she saw a poster on a window, and inspired her to join a air show. Then she began to make a new flying machine to attend the air show. When everything was prepared, on the way to the air show, Violet found there were a group of people had fell into the water. She saved them and missed the show. But to her surprise, people in the town praised her and even the police chief gave her and her dog a metal. This story tells the readers the importance of having a dream.
what make this book a fantasy are the dog who acts like a human and the girl who can make many kinds of flying machine even though she is only 8 years old, and the flying machines appeared in the book. These things will not happen in the real life. However, it is the imagination of the flying machines and the dream of the little girls as well as the kindness shown in the story make this a good book for children who would like to have a dream. ( )

Fantasy book about a girl who loves to invent. She eventually invents a plane and gets awarded for her good deed. ( )

Realistic fiction. This story is about a girl named Violet but she isn't like many other girls. She spends her time looking for supplies from her dad's junk yard to build flying machines. While most girls play with dolls and girly stuff Violet plays with wrenches and gets dirty. All of the kids at her school make fun of her because they say she is a nerd. One day when she was walking home she sees a sign that was for the air show, she was going to enter. She spent time working on her plane and the day finally came. As she was getting ready to head to the show she was flying over a river and notice a troop of Boy Scouts had fallen in the water and needed help. She stopped and saved them all and dropped them off at the hospital, but by doing that she missed the show. She went back home and was sitting sadly in her room. Then there was a knock on the door, the mayor had came to give her the medal of valor as a token of gratitude for saving the Boy Scouts. She kept flying the skies after that. ( )

Violet was always known to be odd in this fairytale fiction book . She started at a very young age being mechanically inclined unlike the rest of the girls in their town. She even put an engine on her little brothers tricycle! Violet's creating grew to much greater things and she started building her own versions of airplanes that could actually fly. Although she thought her inventions were cool, kids at school bullied her. Then one day, she saw there was an air show coming up and figured if she won it maybe the other students would not tease her anymore. Violet then began crafting her aircraft, the Hornet. On her way to the air she saw a group of boy scouts needing to be rescued and she knew she had to help. After rescuing them she realized she had missed the air show and became disappointed. However, that night a crowd of people gathered around her front door cheering as she received an award for saving the troop. This book would be appropriate for primary grades.

This book is a great fantasy book with a strong female lead who enjoys doing stuff that is normally thought of as being a man's job. She enjoys fixing things and engineers her own plane. She is bullied at school for not being like the other kids. Violet decides one day that she is going to enter the air show. She spends all her spare time working out of her father's junk yard to build her own plane. While flying to the air show Violet notices a troop of boy scouts whose canoe overturned in the river. Violet chooses to save the troop of boys and misses her air show. She is very sad that she wasn't able to win a medal from the air show. One night the mayor and a bunch of people from her town, including the boy scouts, show up at her house hand her a medal of honor for her bravery. ( )

In this Modern Fantasy, a young girl named violet was not like the rest of her classmates. Instead of playing games, she would be building things. This quirk made it hard for her to have friends. In fact, all of the students in her class made fun of her. But when she found out about an air show, she decided to build an airplane to enter into the competition. When she finishes building it, she takes it on a test run. During the test, she sees a group of scouts out on the river rapids. She saves them all and brings them to the hospital. Unfortunately, this made her miss her race. She was very sad that she was unable to show all the kids in her class how cool her airplane was, and how cool she was. Then, she hears something out her window. It is everyone in the town, calling her a hero for saving the scouts lives. ( )

A super cute book about Violet who started building her unique and amazing inventions beginning at the age of two. Violet builds not just every day items, but creative and unique inventions, mostly inventions that fly. Despite bullying from kids at school (Claude and Clyde Mulrooney), Violet decides to build another plane to fly in the local air show. She builds her best invention yet, but on her way to the show she rescues a group of Boy Scouts and misses the show. Although devastated to not participate in the race, she is surprised to be awarded a medal of valor and her mother's permission to fly whenever she wanted (if she wears a sweater). I really liked this book. It was funny, awesome illustrations and good story and I think that children would love to sit and read this on their own or have it read as a read aloud for fun. It was just a good-natured book. ( )