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Teach Students It’s Okay to Make Mistakes

These books will help kids normalize mistakes and understand that there is a learning opportunity when they goof up.


August 16, 2021

Teach Students It’s Okay to Make Mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes: In fact, it’s a normal part of learning and growing everyday. However, students might occasionally feel overwhelmed with the negative emotions associated with goofing up.

While feelings like this are also completely normal, it’s important that students learn to dust themselves off and try again with courage and self-compassion.

Books that remind kids that everyone—even grownups!—go through the same feelings can be incredibly helpful for students. 

Shop books and materials about embracing mistakes below! You can find all books and activities at The Teacher Store.

$5.24$6.99
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This board book recounts the early years of David Shannon's beloved young alter ego with exuberant wit. From breakfast time to bedtime, David's constant messes and mishaps lead to cries of "Oh David!" from his mother. 

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Mistakes Are POP! Chart

Grades All Grades Available
$2.99$3.99
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Encourage your students to think, dream, and do their best with these inspirational POP! Charts.

Board Book

Diaper David Board Books: Oops!

Grades Pre-K
$5.99$7.99
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Oops! Did somebody make a mess?! Join David as he finds himself in a few sticky situations, and learn his five favorite words along the way.

Paperback Book

It's Okay to Make Mistakes

Grades Pre-K - 1
$4.46$5.95
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Parr's bestselling books have reminded kids to embrace differences, to be thankful, to love one another, and to be themselves. 

Paperback Book

I Am Not a Chair!

Grades Pre-K - 1
$4.49$5.99
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Constantly mistaken for a chair, a giraffe must find his voice to make his new friends understand his hurt feelings.

Paperback Book

Billy Bully

Grades Pre-K - K
$2.99$3.99
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As Billy Bully does one rotten thing after another, his friends dwindle to zero. With a little effort, Billy Bully realizes that a real friend doesn't think only of himself.

Paperback Book

No, David!: David Gets in Trouble

Grades Pre-K - 2
$4.49$5.99
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David doesn't mean to get in trouble. It's not his fault. Most of the time, it's just an accident! Whatever the situation, David has a really good explanation, and it will leave kids and parents laughing.

$5.21$6.95
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Colorful rhyming text reveals the many ways superheroes sometimes slip up and err, but ultimately get on with their day, and keep on saving the world in the most super way!

Paperback Book

The Best Mistake Ever and Other Stories

Grades 1 - 3
$3.71$4.95
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When Huckle Cat's mother sends him to the grocery store for cream, apples, potatoes, and oranges, he forgets his shopping list. Instead of buying the items on the list, he buys ice cream, apple pie, potato chips, and orange soda. Will Mother Cat be upset?

Paperback Book

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

Grades 1 - 2
$4.46$5.95
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Lilly loves everything about school, especially her cool teacher, Mr. Slinger. But when Lilly brings her purple plastic purse and its treasures to school and can't wait until sharing time, Mr. Slinger confiscates her prized possessions. Lilly's fury leads to revenge and then to remorse and she sets out to make amends.

$9.74$12.99
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Almost everything is going great for Dany. She and Madison are still best friends, she still has her magic sketchbook, and the new school year is looking up. But when Dany creates a duplicate of herself to secretly help with homework and raise her social status, the two of them accidentally unleash a magical dog that wreaks supernatural havoc on the town.

Paperback Book

Restart

Grades 5 - 9
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A boy who's been a bully and hanging out with the wrong friends gets a new start after a memory-loss-inducing accident. But can someone really change who he is, or will the old him merely come back over time?

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