She is an inventor and we have designed lots of different inventions, some are to help a bird in the story and others we’d like to build and have at home! The illustrations are detailed, and the inventions shown are wonderful and could initiate discussions while looking at them. Dogs Don’t Do Ballet, which she illustrated, was shortlisted for the 2010 Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the 2010 BookTrust Early Years Award. I've read this book in the Dutch translation and I'm sorry to say that the translation ruined an otherwise perfectly nice book.

It is also great to see her parental guide encouraging her and not getting upset when she makes a mess. Since graduating in 1993 with an illustration/printmaking BA Hons and a PG diploma in 1994 from Edinburgh College of Art, Sara has continued to create and develop work which has been exhibited across the UK and abroad.You could copy the illustrator’s style, repeat the words exactly, or you could make it your own by changing the pictures and words.

Izzy Gizmo loves to invent so she carries a tool box everywhere in case she can fix or improve machines. Pip Jones’ rhyming narrative is a cracker to read aloud and Sara Ogilvie’s imagination must be almost as fertile as young Izzy’s… A real riot. When she comes across a bird with a broken wing she is inspired to try helping, but fails over and over again. To help you with your building, you may want to conduct an experiment to find the best building material. Pip was born in Cheltenham, UK, where she spent her childhood gobbling up books and dreaming about being an author herself.After completing the Word Walk strategy with my students, I would ensure that students could apply the words. Told through the eyes of Izzy Gizmo, a young, Black girl who loves inventing, this is a tale about perseverance and not giving up when things go wrong.

Sara Ogilvie is an illustrator and printmaker and was the 2011 BookTrust Best New Illustrators Award winner. With the help of her supportive grandpa, and an injured crow she rescues, Izzy learns to how to persist and stay upbeat - "try again and again" - until she finally succeeds.

Izabelle Gizmo just loves to invent, but her inventions never seem to work the way she wants them to. One day a bird falls from the sky with injured wings, and Izzy struggles to invent something that will help the bird to fly again. In the video, listen to the full story, complete with a quick warm up to start and some book chat at the end!

You can use activities to differentiate instruction, give students a choice, or focus on a specific skill. The focus on inventing, and a female, Black protagonist is lovely, but what I really liked is that what finally helps her to succeed is not giving up when the first try fails.Inventions with cool names like Tea-Mendous and Swirly-Spagsonic that look like something Doc Brown would make. However, the one of the best parts of the book is the robust vocabulary that Pip Jones intertwines throughout the pages. Izzy Gizmo is a girl inventor who loves nothing more than fixing things or inventing gadgets to solve everyday problems. Thought was really fun with all the rhyming, illustrations were great and I enjoyed how the words were varied and all over the place. This book is about empowering girls to participate in inventions and technology as well as perseverance and not giving up.