2016 Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction

Encourage them to dream

leading to a confrontation with the goddess Athena

and a sprinkling of twinkling glitter

The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1) Jamie Glowacki 2016 Winner of the NormaAward winning author and illustrator Ashley Spires has created a charming picture book about an unnamed girl and her very best friend, who happens to be a dog. The girl has a wonderful idea. She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. All she has to do is make it, and she makes things all the time. Easy peasy! But making her magnificent thing is anything but easy, and the girl