Yet avid news-followers the Victorian world over were privy to just such excitement and wonder that spring, which serves as the historical underpinning of Jane Kerr’s novel The Elephant Thief-delightful, breath-snatching, vibrant. Picture that occurring, furthermore, in 1872, when few in those parts had even heard of the imposing beings. Spotting an elephant making its bedizened way through the Scottish countryside would certainly be a gob-smacking sight. Brenda Maier has unassailably built her case. They have such fun helping with finishing touches-Ruby’s Fort (as its sign proclaims) needs flower boxes planted, a mailbox, and its hallmark paint color-that it flies right by them that they and their mini-machismo are not in charge, and the advantages of collaboration have further won the day. An overwhelming pleasure of The Little Red Fort is to watch the brothers’ disdain crumble against a concept so deftly turned genuine object. The culmination is a rustic exterior and an interior where her dedication to her vision has rolled up its sleeves to integrate a hodge-podge of found furnishings and prized toy-land possessions. 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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