Audrey wants to be an inventor, but her early attempts do not succeed. Her amazingly supportive Dad keeps encouraging her, and one day her invention is a success . . . or almost a complete success. This is an upbeat portrait of a spunky, determined inventor who learns how important it is to persist when things don't go quite as expected. Spunky, colorful, "inventive' illustrations match the theme of the story. A fine choice for a read aloud, followed by a discussion of inventors and inventing.

Audrey, a cute redhead, wears her hair in pigtails tied with measuring tape. She is inquisitive, always asking questions, and likes to discover how things work. When her teacher asks everyone what they want to be when they grow up, Audrey beams when she announces, “I want to be an inventor!” That evening she begins drawing plans for inventions she’d like to work on. But after she completes her egg collector and cat-a-pult inventions, she is disappointed that the egg collector is a failure and that the cat is not excited about flying through the air. In fact, all of her inventions don’t quite work for her dad and cat, which to an inventor is fairly devastating. When Audrey declares herself a failure her dad has a talk with her, but will that be enough to put her back on the right track?”

Cons:  A small "con" would be that I don't care for the eyes, or lack of eyes, on the characters.

Pros:  I especially enjoyed the detailed illustrations, plus the imagination that Audrey used to come up with her unique inventions. This book should excite many children who have big dreams and even those who don't since it might cause them to think outside-the-box.

This book was so cute! It's about a girl Audrey, who wants to be an inventor and keeps inventing little things that would be useful at home. She works on many projects that fail, and feels bad at some point. Her father encourages her teaching that not all inventions are great and it takes time to invent something good. So long as she learns from her projects, it's all OK. Then Audrey starts to work on next project with more care, and planning, which turns out to be better than before.
The book had a very nice message for little kids. It has really cute illustrations. Audrey is adorable. I would definitely recommend it.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for granting a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

A lovely story about Audrey, an ambitious member of little folk, with her cat and her dad. I loved this because the 'inventor' is not male, a rare occasion of encouraging female talent in engineering/building so I congratulate the writer. I also loved the idea of Audrey having a single dad- some children just have one parent so it's nice to see this diversity, and instead of a little boy and his mummy a little ambitious girl and his daddy is perfect and refreshing. I would recommend this book for children over 2!