Iggy Peck, Architect was written by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts. It was published in 2007 by Abrams Books for Young Readers.
Iggy Peck is a genius architect. He’s in the second grade and ever since he was two, he has been constructing anything with whatever he can find. In elementary school, Iggy has to put up with his teacher who has no appreciation for architecture, due to a traumatic incident when she was a child. By the end of the story, this teacher realizes the importance of architectures after Iggy saves the day.
I’m sure kids will love to read this book. I was always fascinated by Lego as a child and most children seem to enjoy putting things together. I like the fact that the main character is very capable at improvising with any material. It’s not good to always follow the manual!
Wonderful illustrations but the temple in the story looks more like a pagoda... There’s a lot of fine detail with Iggy’s creations. Iggy’s classmates are all drawn well and I like how the females have eyelashes. The scene of the teacher crossing the bridge drawn with color pencils is pretty neat.
The placement of the text is fairly simple except for a couple of instances. When the bridge collapses towards the end, the text also collapses and when the mother freaks out at the beginning, the lines of text become wavy.
The overall message is a good one. Let’s try to not limit the imagination of others because of what you believe is correct.
Recommended.
