A young girl and her best friend do all kinds of things together.  One day she decides to create the most magnificent thing.  After gathering supplies and setting up in an out-of-the-way place, she begins to work.  Through the illustrations, the reader knows the best friend is a dog and the private work space is the middle of a busy sidewalk.  The process of making something new does not go smoothly, so she tosses her first attempt aside and starts over.  Again, it does not work.  Illustrations show her facial expressions go from hopeful to frustrated to angry.  None of the creations are magnificent.  The angrier she gets, the less careful she is until she explodes!  (“It is not her finest moment.”)  As she and her dog go for a walk, she begins to calm down.  Returning to her failed attempts, she see parts that were right, and she begins to work one more time.  Again, the illustrations add to the story as they show neighbors finding use for her failures and begin carrying them away.  At last she is successful.  The final illustration shows the girl on her scooter with her dog sitting in a new side-car seat!  There are many messages in this amusing story: the scientific method when experimenting or inventing, it is OK to make mistakes, and perseverance.  Wonderful vocabulary enrichment in all the related verbs!  Spires’ use of color and white space help focus on details of the story.