The Awesome, Impossible, Unstoppable Gadget

by Kevin Kelly, Rebecca Kelly

Overview

The Awesome, Impossible, Unstoppable Gadget is an inspiring picture book from Kevin Kelly and Rebecca Kelly about incredible inventions going haywire illustrates that with persistence, anyone can be awesome, impossible, and unstoppable.

Trixie O’Toole is super-excited to be at Camp Create, where she can invent whatever she likes. But when a boy nicknamed “Professor” von Junk gets all the attention, Trixie feels left out. Still, she persists in following her own inspiration.

When von Junk’s Invention Inventor goes out of control, everyone is horrified. Is Trixie’s own invention sufficiently awesome, impossible, and unstoppable to save the day?

Trixie’s triumph will inspire future inventors and mad scientists to believe in themselves, and show that all good ideas deserve a chance.

An Imprint Book

“Bold animation-style illustrations bring Camp C.R.E.A.T.E. and its Gadgets Galore Competition to life ... An action-packed story.” —Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250754479
Publisher:	Imprint
Publication date:	09/10/2019
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	27 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Kevin and Rebecca Kelly live in Central New York with their two kids and a shaggy black dog. Kevin owns a small graphic design shop and Rebecca teaches design at Syracuse University. When they’re not working, Rebecca likes to start complicated projects which Kevin has to figure out how to finish. They spend their free time playing, hiking and vacationing off-the-grid in Coastal Maine—and napping. The Awesome, Impossible, Unstoppable Gadget is their first children's book.

Editorial Reviews

Bold animation-style illustrations bring Camp C.R.E.A.T.E. and its Gadgets Galore Competition to life ... An action-packed story.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2019-06-25
Letters written home from a futuristic camp record big doings.

Bold animation-style illustrations bring Camp C.R.E.A.T.E. and its Gadgets Galore Competition to life. One camper nicknamed Professor von Junk "gets an idea for a gadget so clever / that everyone wants to help put it together." Everyone, that is, except the letter writer, who thinks "helping is nice, but I want to come up / with my own cool device." Once the competition begins, the protagonist can't even get into the crowded lab. Discouraged but resilient, the kid creates a separate lab and develops an invention that, sadly, seems only to work in reverse. But Professor von Junk's invention has a major flaw, too, creating chaos. Luckily, the letter writer's invention saves the day. On the final page, the victor is honored with the name Professor O'Toole. Readers might notice O'Toole's stylized pigtails, but only by reading the jacket flap will readers confirm the narrator is a female named Trixie (O'Toole). Is this a subtle book about girl power? In the future, could scientific ability be viewed without regard to gender? Perhaps, but this story has only one other implied female camper (a ponytailed kid named Lovelace) plus stereotypical references to Trixie's "cute little cabin" and glitter-decorated invention. Bafflingly, the rhyming text is not consistently set as such. All the campers are green humanoid children.

An action-packed story for young inventors with troubling gender treatment. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews