It truly is a wonderufl book and reinforces a message that is so valuable for children across all elementary grades, and even well into middle school! The only true failure can come if you quit. Life might have its failures, but this was not it.

Who smiled at her aunt as it all became clear. 'Your brilliant first flop was a raging success!Ĭome on, let’s get busy and on to the next!' A disheartened Rosie is surprised to be congratulated by her great-great-aunt with my most favorite part of the book in her relative’s wise reaction: Her first attempt does indeed take off and leave the ground, but just for a moment before it crashes back to earth. Rosie begins to wonder if she could possibly build a flying machine. That is until her great-great-aunt Rose visits and shares her dream of flying. One of my favorite books for helping inspire children to embrace this mindset change is Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty. The title character, Rosie Revere, loves to make fine inventions to help her friends and family members, but when her uncle laughs out loud at one of her creations, Rosie’s feelings are hurt and she decides to keep her ideas and dreams to herself. In those moments of pure frustration she can be difficult to console, but I've been known (on more than one occasion) to use books to stealthily invite further discussion on the importance of not giving up, trying again, and transforming the common refrain 'can't' to 'yet'.(though I have learned to wait until she is calm again). It's not unusual for her to despair, “It’s just not right!” or, “It won’t work!” and even, “I can’t do this!” Just this morning, inspired by our recent family travel, she's been busy making a passport for her favorite plush toy - complete with photographs, an intricately drawn coat of arms, and hand drawn 'stamps' to represent the countries her beloved Catty visited.Īs much as she loves creating, she's also a sensitive soul and more than a little tough on herself, regularly losing patience when the results of her creative efforts do not look like the vision in her head. She loves to build with recycled boxes, draws constantly, and fills homemade books with wonderful stories of her own imagining. My six-year-old is a true creative at heart.

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