![]() ![]() Some readers may question the premise of this book. Think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful! The overriding message is summarized in the final pages of the book. The mistakes in the book cleverly focus on art, but it’s not difficult for readers to draw parallels between this theme and virtually everything else in life. ![]() ![]() With every page comes a new accident - a folded corner, a couple drops of spilled paint - and an interactive opportunity for readers to “do” something creative with it. For example, on one page children pull back flaps to see how a stain left by a coffee mug can be transformed into a beautiful work of art. Making the most of mistakes is a central theme of Beautiful Oops! ( public library) by Barney Saltzberg, a playful and thoughtfully designed book for children ages three and up. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new.” “We need to think about failure differently,” Ed Catmull asserted in Creativity, Inc., his tell-all book on managing Pixar Animation Studios. A playful book with a timeless lesson for young readers - it’s okay to mess up, and failure is nothing to be ashamed of. ![]()
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