Rosie Revere, Engineer

A second-grader named Rosie is an aspiring engineer who creates inventions out of found objects and trash, including a hot dog dispenser, helium pants, and a hat for her zookeeper uncle that shoots cheese to keep snakes away. When her uncle laughs at that invention, she gets discouraged. But then her great-great-aunt Rose, who worked constructing airplanes in World War II (complete with Rosie the Riveter red-and-white bandana), comes for a visit and tells her about all the things she did in her life and "the goals she had checked off her list one by one." Her one unfulfilled dream was to fly. So Rosie decides to build a flying machine so her aunt can achieve that goal. When it crashes, Rosie is upset and concludes that she'll never be a great engineer. But her aunt points out that it did fly before it crashed, and that failing is part of the process: "Your brilliant first flop was a raging success! / Come on, let's get busy and on to the next!"