THE NINE MINUTES / 02BOOK 02 · YOUR COMPANION GUIDE
The Impossible Rig
Nell Okonjo · 14, Head Rigger
The Roost keeps twenty-two days of water a hundred and twenty feet up a tree, and loses all twenty-two in forty minutes.
Keep this page beside the book. Follow its people and places, try its mission, then return after the last chapter.
BEFORE YOU READ / THREE PLACES TO BEGIN
Build the exit first.
Play the book · A two-minute Roost challenge
A clever tool needs a way out.
The workshop test
Two decisions. A place on the crew. Try a short challenge inspired by The Impossible Rig.
A place on the crew.
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A spoiler-free companion activity, not an extract from the book.
EIGHTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS / ONE FOR EACH CHAPTER
Small things.
Whole stories.
Look for the objects your chapter leaves behind. Choose a drawing to take it into Storytime, where you can look closer while someone reads aloud.
OFF THE PAGE
Look closer.
Try it yourself.
Every volume pairs dinosaur evidence with a hands-on build. Both are free to read here.
Ankylosaurus
Explore the evidence, the discoveries and what the story made up.
Open the Field Notes ↗MAKE ITBuild something that works.
A siphon out of two jars and a length of tube, and why breaking it on purpose matters.
Open the activity ↗Come back after the last chapter.
Mark this book finished to open its reflection and work towards its passport seal.
AFTER READING
What makes a clever design useful to the people and animals who depend on it?
Talk it through, draw an answer, or find a passage that changed your mind.