Piggybacking on the HUGE success of The Most Magnificent Thing comes The Most Magnificent Idea by Ashley Spires. 

We once again meet the intrepid engineer and her best friend. She always has ideas, she’s practically an idea machine. What happens when one day she wakes up and her mind is blank, she has no new ideas? Ashley Spires shows readers the importance of perseverance, trying new things and waiting for inspiration to arrive.

I’m sure most of you reading have experience with a child saying, “I’m bored!” the most hated phrase by parents worldwide. In The Most Magnificent Idea, readers are introduced to all kinds of great ideas of how to shake off boredom and look for their next inspiring task. I love that this book features a female inventor. More and more picture books are created with children no longer in gender based roles and instead exploring the wide world around them. I feel like this book, and particularly the magnificent idea at the end are definitely inspired by Ashley Spires really world, especially as a lover of adorable kittens.

As always, the art is fantastic, it’s animated and inviting and full of inspiration. This book could easily be used as a jumping off point in a maker space or a STEAM lesson to help inspire creativity and innovation.