The women in his life, that being his mother and his teacher Miss Lila Greer, sport some remarkable up-dos of their own.

Iggy is a chipper soul with a thick patch of hair that flies straight out from the top of his head like a plane from a landing strip. In 'Iggy Peck', Roberts has channeled the style of the late 50s, early 60s instead. At this point in time he was probably best known for his Cinderella: An Art Deco Love Story, which gives you a fairly good sense of his tastes and styles. Roberts has probably flown under your radar until now. His style appears to be nothing so much as Gerald McBoing Boing meets Frank Lloyd Wright. Roberts bears much of the credit for this, I'll wager. I mean, the combined efforts of author Andrea Beaty and illustrator David Roberts make this particular occupation look remarkably cool. Of course I can already see the wild glint in the eyes of the parents who will hope against hope that by buying this book they will be able to coerce their own little Johnny or Jill into wanting to be an architect someday too. Little hope, that is, until Iggy's skills prove useful when it comes to escape. That is, until the day the class is trapped on a small island with little hope of escape. Greer had once suffered an unfortunate incident in a very tall building, and the result is that she felt from there on in that, 'all building-lovers were nuts.' Forbidden to build, Iggy's spirit is crushed. By three he used fruit to create his constructions, and by the time he hit the second grade he was getting more and more creative. No, by age two he'd discovered how to construct towers out of diapers (interesting, if not particularly sanitary). It was pretty clear right from the start that Iggy Peck wasn't your normal toddler. Ada Twist, Scientist, the companion picture book featuring the next kid from Iggy Peck's class, is available in September 2016. He loves building too much to give it up! With Andrea Beaty’s irresistible rhyming text and David Roberts’s puckish illustrations, this book will charm creative kids everywhere, and amuse their sometimes bewildered parents.Īlso from the powerhouse author-illustrator team of Iggy Peck, Architect, is Rosie Revere, Engineer, a charming, witty picture book about believing in yourself and pursuing your passion.

His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they’re sometimes surprised by his materials-who could forget the tower he built of dirty diapers? When his second-grade teacher declares her dislike of architecture, Iggy faces a challenge. Meet Iggy Peck-creative, independent, and not afraid to express himself! In the spirit of David Shannon’s No, David and Rosemary Wells’s Noisy Nora, Iggy Peck will delight readers looking for irreverent, inspired fun. A hilarious, irreverent book about doing your own thing

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