SuitabookSimon Patenteux
Léo-James Lévesque
- Reading
- Pause over the illustrations and ask what each machine might do before reading on. Afterwards, invite your child to describe an invention of their own and consider who it might help.
- Themes
- Persistence and invention: Simon keeps dreaming and inventing after his parents discard a machine; he is also shown bringing a new invention to school. The story explicitly presents persistence and effort in pursuing a dream as important, while Simon’s inventions also create difficulties for others.
- Worth knowing
- Simon’s contraptions disturb his household, and one malfunctions amid the family’s cleaning, swallowing objects.