The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes: A Growth Mindset Book for Kids to Promote Self Esteem Hardcover – Picture Book, October 1, 2011

My 4 granddaughter was always worried about making a mistake. She loves this book and now loves to mix things up. She laughs every time we read the story. Cute art work.

Loved this book for my granddaughters! It taught them that it’s okay to NOT be perfect. What a breath of fresh air!

Great book about teaching lesson on not always have to be perfect and be able to make mistakes is okay

So cute and great story. Finding stories that are heartfelt and inspiring is important to me. My 7 year old daughter loved it. It will be in our rotation for a while! ♥️

Good book on teaching students it is ok to make mistakes.

Bright illustrations that go right along with the clever wording in this delightful book. I picked it up because we have a little perfectionist that is growing up in our home. She hates to make a mistake and in kindergarten it created issues. I saw this book and thought it would be the perfect read during the summer between kinder and first. Yes it is. She has enjoyed picking out words she knows and helping read it with me. The hamster in the book is just so cute and the diversity in the friends!! A+ I can not wait to look for more books from this author for our at home book collection.

Update: I pulled it out to read to my younger child last night, who loved it at face value. What surprised me, however, was my older one (the original 5-year-old in this review). Besides loving the illustrated nods to her favorite comic strip these days, she is now old enough to read a bit more deeply. She pointed out, for example, that the crowd of fans in the beginning that disappear in the end are likely representative of the girl's internalized anxiety, which resolve when she is forced to confront her fear of failure, noting that they were drawn without color. She noticed details, like the girl hadn't changed her performance in 3 years, because she felt so much pressure to be perfect, both internally and externally, that she was afraid to do new things. Things drawn in gray (her fans, her father who proudly proclaimed that she didn't make mistakes, her teacher) were possible causes of her negative emotions.Lots to discuss in this book, even for slightly older kids!***My five year old with perfectionist tendencies loves this story. It's a nice reminder that nobody is perfect. It's cute, and the art is definitely more than a little reminiscent of Calvin and Hobbes (the little brother, the dad, the teacher at school, etc).

So I’ve been looking into more Growth Mindset resource materials for my classroom and came across this book. I have to say this is another must have. Students connect find it easy to connect to the character. The humor is engaging and keeps kids anticipating what’s gonna happen next. This book is great for interactive read aloud or teaching the lesson of its okay to make mistakes. There’s so much fun to be had through making mistakes. I love this book!!