"The Book of Mistakes: Learning from Life's Setbacks and Celebrating Our Successes" by Corinna Luyken

Karla Gunnell: My niece had this book and I loved the story and the drawings are spectacular

United States on Dec 10, 2023

Ruth Noble: Lovely book with superbly creative illustrations! More art suppplies please…we have some mistakes to make! Imagination meets whimsy, amd they are friends!

Canada on Aug 11, 2023

Rachel Mas: This book is clever and beautiful!

United States on May 10, 2023

Amazon Customer: Less is more when said correctly!
I will read this book again and again.. recommend for all ages.. thank you

India on Nov 23, 2022

Felipe Caminada: Children loved this book, it was great as a conversation starter on circle time. It helps us to understand that mistakes are not a bad thing and we should own our mistakes instead of being ashamed of them.

Canada on Dec 27, 2020

PJC: This was a present for my Wife, who is an art & design teacher. She loved it, as it reflects what she does to give students the confidence to try and embrace their mistakes as part of the learning process. It is beautifully written and illustrated.

United Kingdom on Dec 24, 2019

VJM: My granddaughter and I do art projects together. She is 11 and perhaps too old for picture books, but this one has excellent illustrations and a good message.

Canada on Jun 11, 2019

John W. Pearson: At first, I thought “The Book of Mistakes” was a biography of my life because I’ve made my fair share of mistakes. Whopper mistakes!

Example: At a robust planning session years ago in Colorado Springs, the idea team had brainstormed over 100 workshop titles and presenters for a regional conference. Scribbled flipchart pages lined the walls of our meeting room—so we called it a day and went out for dinner.

The next morning—gulp! Our flipchart notes were missing-in-action. Bare wells greeted our shocked team. I had failed to delegate the note-taking chore. Those were our only notes.

But amazingly, that well-managed hotel staff sprang into action—and an hour later, the general manager burst into our meeting room with a dozen flipchart pages. “I found them in the dumpster,” he shouted!

“But the flipchart pages are hardly even wrinkled,” a team member questioned.

“I know,” the GM smiled, “we just ironed them.”

LOL! Thus one of my favorite management axioms was birthed that morning: “It’s not if you make mistakes (you will)…it’s how you recover from your mistakes that differentiate leaders from...

United States on Mar 29, 2018

BKMom: This book had been great in engaging my daughter who wrestles with perfectionism see how mistakes don’t need to be covered up or hidden but can be embraced to build something beautiful. I would recommend this for any child especially one who wrestles with perfectionism.

United States on Jan 14, 2018

Happily Ever Elephants: What a stunner this is! The Book of Mistakes, written and illustrated by newcomer Corrina Luyken, is a quiet masterpiece illuminating the inherent beauty that underlies every misstep we make. Even months after first reading this book, I still cannot quite believe this is Lyuken's debut. She is, without a doubt, one to watch. And this book is, without a doubt, a favorite of 2017.

In The Book Of Mistakes, the reader follows Luyken on a creative journey- one that exquisitely depicts how "mistakes" actually become an integral component of her illustrative process. Luyken's artistry is meant to be pored over and studied, with new, quirky details to be discovered each time the book is picked up for a reread. Though there are numerous books that touch upon opportunities arising from perceived errors, this one is as powerful as it is unassuming.

So many kids are perfectionists, beginning a project again and again because they can't get it just right. So how can we, the "grown ups" help to nurture their creativity and limit their insecurity? Use The Book of Mistakes -- and perhaps even pair it with A Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg -- to show little ones that magnificence...

United States on Aug 08, 2017