Reviewed by Kerry Gittins
Fix-it Ninget is a Space Ninget who loves to build and fix things. Ninget has made lots of weird and wonderful gadgets on her home planet, but now, with encouragement from her grandfather, Ninget is taking some great big ideas to neighbouring planets. When she lands on the rocky Pink Planet, there seems to be lots to fix. Ninget tries to help Snug plant seeds in the forest, but the machine loses control and shoots the seeds up into the sky.
Ninget thought
she should help Slush, who lives on top of a very mushy mountain in a very
drippy house, but the humungous fan she invented blew wind everywhere and
created a blizzard! Ninget then found Shroom and used her Robot Digbee to pull
him out of the ground, but Shroom needed the moss and the hole he was in, to
survive. Shroom, Slush and Snug knew that Ninget really wanted to help and
decided that what she needed was her very own workshop on Pink Planet so that
creatures could come to her to fix things, instead of the other way around. And
so, they built 'Ninget's Help Shed.'
This is such a timely story about global warming
and wanting to make a positive contribution to saving our planet. Told by
someone who will inherit the difficult problems of the past, it is such a
joyous and uplifting story about the future. The outlined and cartoon-like
illustrations are bright and colourful, and just right for engaging younger
readers. The rhyming text is jaunty and humorous without being didactic, and
there are enough subtle hints to enable a connection with current climate
concerns. It seems that the moral of this story is that sometimes the best
intentions are not always the right ones but, with perseverance and compassion,
we will find a solution.
Supporting teaching themes could include climate change, Earth, forests, mountains, polar melting, robots, space, the environment, vegetables, inventions, creativity, the solar system, planets.
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