The illustration in The Most Magnificent Thing is wonderful. the little bit of a clue from the very beginning about what the young engineer has realized would be absolutely the most magnificent thing. After you do, go back to the beginning and see if you and your readers can find the foreshadowing. What did she build? You'll have to read the book to find out.
Seeing all of her previous builds in a new light, she starts again and this time she succeeds in making her most magnificent thing. As she passes each iteration, she suddenly sees that in some of them, there are things that are "right," things that might work even though they didn't work in that version. A long walk, suggested by dog, helps her settle down.Īs chance and clever storytelling would have it, to get back home, she has to walk back by a long chain of her project attempts. Finally, she gets really frustrated and, momentarily, gives up. Unfortunately, nothing she builds is exactly what she has in mind. When one attempt isn't quite right, she moves to a new spot and begins again.
Up and down the street, she works on her invention. From the outset, readers are told that Ashley loves to build and, at the beginning of the story, she is struck by an idea for what she believes would be "the most magnificent thing." She knows exactly what wants to build, but as she discovers, sometimes making an idea real isn't quite as easy as it seems and takes multiple attempts. Similar in concept to Rosie Revere, Engineer, The Most Magnificent Thing is the story of a young girl engineer and her best friend, dog. (Apr.The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires (Kids Can Press) is a wonderful story for young engineers. There are quiet laughs, too, like the description of the girl’s work area as “somewhere out of the way”-smack in the middle of the sidewalk, that is, annoying the maximum number of neighbors. It’s a useful description of the creative process, an affirmation of making rather than buying, and a model for girl engineers. In the act of taking a walk, her mind clears: “Bit by bit, the mad gets pushed out of her head.” The “magnificent thing” turns out to be a bulldog-size sidecar for her scooter. She twists and tweaks and fastens.” Shadowed by her stubby bulldog assistant, she hits a roadblock, and her frustration grows: “Her hands feel too big to work and her brain is too full of all the not-right things.” It’s the bulldog that realizes that his boss needs a break. For her story of a girl’s ambition to build “the most magnificent thing,” Spires (the Binky the Space Cat books) draws her towing a red wagon full of random junk.
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