PICTURE BOOKS
George, Jennifer

Rube Goldberg's Simple Normal Humdrum School Day

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Ed Steckley. George leverages the legacy of her grandfather, inventive cartoonist Rube Goldberg, to hustle for STEAM curricular tie-ins (classroom tips included). A drawn-out story follows bespectacled child Rube going to great lengths to avoid effort in his day with fourteen impractical feats of engineering (based on Goldberg creations), culminating in a gatefold. Using pen-and-ink and watercolor, Steckley skillfully emulates Goldberg but with a more child-friendly touch.

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