The Most Magnificent Thing Hardcover – Picture Book, April 1, 2014

This is a perfect gift for younger grade school kids. It features a young female engineer with a vision. You get to follow her on her journey to build what she envisions will be a perfect creation. As one can predict, it isn't easy and doesn't go according to plan. She gets mad and goes for a walk, which helps her feel better and gradually appreciate the progress she made with each iteration. Her final product isn't perfect, but it is functional and allows her to play the way she had wanted to. A great story arc about making steady progress with patience, taking a break when it gets to be too much, and trying again!

The Most Magnificent Thing is picture book worth reading time and again with our children even for us adults when we lose perspective. It sends the perfect message to the reader about not giving up and looking at the problem from a different point of view. Just set back and recharge before tackling a difficult problem that is stuck.I was pulled into the book with the cover and blurb and immediately requested it. The book is not just a story about making something but learning as well. The girl tries to invent something, tinkering and planning as she goes about her task. Learning and play along with reading make a delightful trio in this book, The Most Magnificent Thing.It is a simple story that can be a good guiding and motivating book for small children. I sat and read it to my son and we read it twice and talked about the pictures and all the little changes and activities the little girl was doing. Her cute, silly dog made the story funny and endearing. The furry assistant sure made a lot of things easy. Only now, my son is asking for his own assistant so he too can build ‘magnificent things’.The illustrations are spot on making it a delight for the younger kids to read as well. The pictures of the ‘magnificent thing’ they are making and its different version was a fun clue to figure out. We played the game together to try to find the exact thing they were making.The Most Magnificent Thing has excellent narration and language and teaches a child and adults about creativity, challenges, and not giving up. Often we are told to ‘take a break’ or ‘see things from a different perspective this book shares all this wisdom in a simple and rather cute manner.A fresh, funny book full of wisdom. A perfect pick for an ideal gift book as well.(I requested this book from KidsCanPress via NetGalley review is my own.)

This was the perfect book for my little engineer who doesn’t always get things to work the way he plans them in his head. It’s a really cute story, and one he asks for again and again. It’s been on our bedtime request list since it came. I feel like he can relate, but it’s not too preachy, you know. It is a social story, but it’s not a “you feel this, you need to do this...” kind of social story. It is a really cute story that shows a child working through a problem in a way that is just super relatable and easy to understand.

Such a cute book. I notice something new in the story every time I read it to my class.

The books are perfect and were shipped and received quickly.

This is a great book to teach determination and not giving up. My littles (3 year olds) got a little bored with it but my older preschoolers liked it.

"The Most Magnificent Thing" has become a very requested story at my house. It is a delightful story and it teaches to keep trying in the face of repeated disappointments.

This book has great illustrations and an overall great message for kids. I love the idea of turning anything into the most magnificent thing. If you haven’t read this book, I recommend picking it up.