![]() ![]() The results are very excellent indeed, Ruby’s precise calculations and overflowing creativity expressed in a just-right backyard bastion. ![]() It’s telling that such traits find favor with more evolved individuals: her parents and a grandmother materialize as willing assistants to her ambitious project. ![]() Here’s a girl in a family in which she manages to merrily rise above the dismissive attitude of boys, additionally unpacking from her toolkit reams of gracious willpower and generous patience toward the immature behavior of others. They run circles around laziness, mockery, playing silly games, and resorting to various electronic distractions. Maier’s droll tale celebrates enthusiasm and an ardor for learning, a fast-witted design sense, and the ability to improvise. But her building tools really start with her mind, which is “always full of ideas,” and determination. ![]() In Brenda Maier’s fun, freeing The Little Red Fort, a variation on the classic folktale “The Little Red Hen,” the idea that their sister, Ruby, a mere girl, wants to build a fort seems especially ridiculous to them.Ĭonceded, Ruby’s initial inspiration springs from a bunch of old boards. José and his tendency to say “no way” where anything outside his comfort zone is concerned has two brothers who echo that sentiment. ![]()
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