Teachers will find this package a springboard for building activities, especially using unconventional materials and for introducing architectural concepts. The strength of the title is its illustrations, whose details readers will enjoy by spending ample time absorbing them. Casting the teacher as an enemy of architecture is odd, and the backstory seems silly and inauthentic. However, the animation is minimal: eyeballs move, arms wave stiffly, heads move from static necks. So begins this delightful new picture book celebrating individuality, persistence and the importance of following your dreams and talents. Simple piano strains accompany the teacher's memory of being lost in a tall building and plaintively demonstrate Iggy's sadness in being prohibited from the pleasure of building. The soundscape is understated, limited to sounds of a classroom of children, birdsong, rushing water, and building sounds as the children construct a suspension bridge. Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty, David Roberts available in Hardcover on, also read synopsis and reviews. Despite being read by the author, the text is awkward at times. This whimsical architecture-focused story Iggy Peck, Architect is read by Peter Exley, FAIA, founder of Architecture Is Fun ().Mr. When a bridge collapses during a class outing, Iggy, who has always been fascinated by architecture, leads the class in building a bridge from materials at hand so that the teacher is no longer stranded. Iggy's second-grade teacher, who once had a bad experience in a tall building's elevator, shuns any mention of architecture in her class. (Oct.Gr 1–3-David Roberts' clever and detailed illustrations are given minimal animation in Dreamscape's DVD version of Andrea Beaty's picture book. Each of Iggy’s 16 classmates, for example, has his or her own unique quality, implying the variety of personalities and potentials to be appreciated in any group of children.
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The structured rhymes and controlled illustrations fit the architectural theme, and if the mannered poetry strains at times, Roberts breaks free of the stylization with absorbing details. Crump’s Cat ) drafts orderly watercolor images on, alternately, clean white paper and graph paper. Beaty ( When Giants Come to Play ) favors sprightly stanzas, while Roberts ( Mrs. His ennui lasts until a fortuitous school picnic, when a rickety footbridge collapses (and so does the teacher) led by Iggy, the children construct a suspension bridge from “boots, tree roots and strings, fruit roll-ups and things/ (some of which one should not mention),” including undies. Her backstory suggests teachers’ rules can be arbitrary, not to mention damaging to inventive students: “With no chance to build, his interest was killed,” and Iggy droops disconsolately at his desk amid blank negative space. When Iggy arrives in second grade, however, his teacher forbids such follies, based on her childhood fear of skyscrapers. Youthful irreverence and creativity find a champion in this tale of Iggy Peck, a child who once “built a great tower-in only an hour-/ with nothing but diapers and glue.” At the sight (and smell) of this wonder, Iggy’s mother memorably responds, “Good Gracious, Ignacious!” She supports his precocity, despite his preferred media.