Katie Jaffe

Fly, Fly Again is a sweet, little children's novel.

I quite liked the overall story - a kid tries to learn to fly by building a machine. Add in the beautiful pictures that really paint this story, and you've got yourself a fun, little book!

I truly love that this book opens up flying and technology to children. It feels very welcoming and open towards the fun engineering can have. It has a cute little rhyming scheme (which I never enjoy, but that's not to say that the readers won't!) that helps paint the story. I also really enjoyed the theme of never giving up, which totally fits in with learning to fly and taking part in technology and engineering.

My biggest negative about this book is that I don't think the readers will understand all of the language used within this book. The advanced language in a children's picture book just seems... off. Parents and reading buddies can definitely explain, but I think that defeats the purpose. Unless this book is going for a higher education level than I'm assuming it is.

Overall, this book is cute and a must read for parents wanting to introduce STEM to their children!

Three out of five stars.

I received this book for free through NetGalley.… (mehr)

This is a cute and fun read for young readers. While, the main lead Jenny, is a female. This book can be enjoyed by boys as well. Although, the reason that it features a girl is for the STEM aspect. Which consists of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This is important because these professional career fields are mainly still male dominated. These types of STEM books are geared towards encouraging females to pursue these career fields.

I have always been interested in these four type of areas. I myself have an Electronic Engineering degree in computers science. So it is nice to see more books encouraging girls to be interested in these fields. While, I did like this book and the concept; I did feel like it could have been a bit more science focused. It briefly touched on the elements you need to help fly.

The illustrations are bright and colorful. I was reading it and from across the room my husband commented on how colorful the pages were. Young readers will like this book but may need some adult assistance reading.… (mehr)