👷‍♀️ This wonderful children’s book features two females in STEM - a woman veterinarian who operates an animal shelter and a young girl who loves to build things to solve problems.

👷‍♀️ I love how Beatriz engineers a solution to help a three-legged dog get better mobility and balance. Not only is she helping the dog, but she also learns herself that solutions to problems often require a lot of trial and error and a lot of patience before you are successful. I love that Beatriz never gave up despite setbacks to her designs.

👷‍♀️ The story is cute, the lesson is great, and the illustrations are awesome!

👷‍♀️ Any book that focuses on being helpful, kind, imaginative, and steadfast is a winner for any child in my opinion! But I particularly recommend it for young girls with have an interest in STEM fields or activities. Representation can make dreams possible!
 
Thank you to @NetGalley and West 44 Books for providing a electronic copy for me to review, which I have done honestly and voluntarily.

Super super Cute. This needs to be on every library shelf and be sure to get any of this author's books for all times. I loved this book.

This is Beatriz, a girl who is confident on her ability to fix things. And she is a real whiz. She loves to volunteer in an animal shelter, thus helping the vet taking care of the animal. Until a dog name Oreo came.

This was a great book for little children who just start to read. Simple to understand, with a good moral lesson, and it rhymes!

I love the little girl being so inventive. I think it's also a nice touch that here invention isn't perfect the first time, and that she gets help without feeling threatened or belittled.

When it comes to fixing and building things Beatriz is awesome! She is a master crafts-girl and very, very smart. She is an inventor extraordinaire!

Every Friday Beatriz volunteers at a pet shelter after school. The pet shelter is run by Dr. Carter who is her mom's best friend. It is there that Beatriz meets and interacts with an adorable disabled dog named Oreo. Oreo only has three legs due to a car accident and has difficulty balancing and walking.

Beatriz is put in charge of taking Oreo outside and tries to help him walk. It is at this time that Beatriz decides to come up with a plan to help sweet Oreo become mobile once again. She is sure, being the fix-it-whiz she is, that she will be able to construct a plan to help Oreo have a better quality of life. With brute determination and putting her problem solving skills into motion can Beatriz become Oreo's superhero and save the day?

The illustrations are colourful, bold and full of emotion and heart. I love that a girl protagonist is a builder and fixer. She is a character that will inspire other young girls to give it a go too. The message is positive and the results will have kids cheering for both Beatriz and Oreo. I highly recommend this book.

I absolutely love the basic idea of this story. A story about a dog that needs a leg and a little girl who makes him a wheel cart is the stuff animal lover's dreams are made of. I was less than impressed with the execution, though. The writing would have much improved by just dropping the attempt at rhyming. I don't know why so many children's authors want to write rhyming stories, but they are really difficult to pull of well, and few manage it.

Beatriz Fix-It-Whiz was a cute story for early readers. I had my 6 year old granddaughter (who is going into first grade) read this. The story line was engaging and the illustrations very complementary. A disabled dog and a loving and smart little girl. Great message of keep trying.

This book was absolutely adorable! I loved the message that it sent to little girls everywhere. With that said my son also enjoyed this book very much!

Thank you to West 44 Books and Amanda Vink for providing an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I wanted to like this book. From the cover, I expected it to be about a girl and her inventions. But that idea quickly gets pushed to the side for a book about a dog who needs help. Less STEM focused than I would have liked, the ultimate story feels like a mismatch between title, cover, and actual story.

This is a cute, simple story about a girl who is a fix-it whiz who designs a wheelchair for a three-legged dog. While there is the obvious plot hole here - that nearly every 3-legged animal in the world gets along just fine without assistive technology - I appreciate that this is a girl who has a science mind, works to help another creature, and has to problem solve when her plan doesn't work perfectly the first time.

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The book is very cute, about an innovative little girl Beatriz who wants to help a amputee dog, bonus points for making most of the story rhyme. My 5 years old enjoyed it very much and she said there's a lot of small details in the art work.

Beatriz is a clever, capable girl who can fix anything. But what happens when she meets a three-legged dog? Beatriz puts her thinking cap on and makes a harness and set of wheels so the dog can run.

It's awesome to see books about girls in STEM, being able to design, fault-find, troubleshoot and build incredible, practical things. BUT this particular story fell a little flat for me.

The text had the rhythm and cadence of a rhyming book, but half the time there was no rhyme, which was jarring to read. I anticipated the book being more along the lines of "Ingenious Jean" (Another girls-in-STEM picture book), but aside from the dog harness, we never see any of Beatriz' other inventions. We learn a lot about the animal shelter, but not so much about why she is a "Fix-it Whiz"

Younger readers, especially girls (5-7yrs) would enjoy this,.

*Many thanks to Netgalley for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*

This is an fantastic book for young girls! My daughters that are in early elementary school loved it!

It conveys that girls can do anything they put their mind to if they don't give up. It is such a sweet story about helping build a cart for a dog so he can walk/run. Love of animals and engineering all in one!

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for a copy of this ARC to review.

I love the idea of showing a strong girl in a STEAM picture book. Bonus points for also having a woman in a professional STEAM role.

However, the actual story felt forced and didn't flow. The text goes back and forth between using rhyme, and the rhyming feels forced and is often a stretch at actually rhyming. A much stronger story would have bypassed the attempted rhyme and concentrated on a more developed story line. I question the target age, as the amount of text and the decreased vocabulary are at odds for which age group for which the book would best be suited.

Overall, this was a great idea that fell short when it came to the writing.

This book is a positive way for students to see a girl go through the engineering process. I liked how there was a purpose and reason for Beatriz to engineer something. Nicely done!

I'm happy to see both a female protagonist with STEM interests and a female professional represented on the page.

The book falls in and out of rhyme which felt awkward to me. Since it already seems geared to older elementary readers (I'd say grades 2-3), I'm not sure the rhyming structure was really necessary. This is better suited as an independent read or a one-on-one read than as a large group read.

I think kids will love the fact that the story is framed around animals and that the goal is to help a pet. That is a very engaging context for the story's message.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!