The artwork is powerful and detailed-pay special attention to the endpapers that progress to show the Yet at work.Ī solid if message-driven conversation starter about the hard parts of learning. At no point in the text is the Yet defined as a metaphor for a growth mindset adults reading with younger children will likely need to clarify this abstract lesson. The gender-indeterminate protagonist has light brown skin and exuberant curly locks Amid the bustling secondary cast, one child uses a prosthesis, and another wears hijab. And that’s okay Follow the boisterous, bouncing protagonist as she explores her moods and how they change from day to day. Silly, cranky, excited, or sadeveryone has moods that can change each day. This book shines with diversity: racial, ethnic, ability, and gender. Written by Jamie Lee Curtis and Illustrated by Laura Cornell. Readers see the protagonist learn to ride the bike before a flash-forward shows the child as a capable college graduate confidently designing a sleek new bike. The second-person rhyming couplets remind readers that mistakes are part of learning and that with patience and effort, children can achieve. This Yet reminds the child of past accomplishments and encourages perseverance. Attempting a wheelie, the novice cyclist falls onto the sidewalk, grimacing, and, having internalized this setback as failure, vows to never ride again but to “walk…forever.” Then the unnamed protagonist happens upon a glowing orb in the forest, a “thought rearranger-er”-a luminous pink fairy called the Magical Yet. 5-8)Ĭhildren realize their dreams one step at a time in this story about growth mindset.Ī child crashes and damages a new bicycle on a dark, rainy day. Considering the author’s track record and influences, it may find a welcome from younger audiences too. Short on internal logic but long on creamy scenes of calf and tractor either gamboling energetically with a gaggle of McCloskey-like geese through neutral-toned fields or resting peacefully in the shade of a gnarled tree (apple, not cork), the episode will certainly draw nostalgic adults. After the big new yellow tractor, crowds of overalls-clad locals and a red fire engine all fail to pull her out, the little tractor (who had been left behind the barn to rust after the arrival of the new tractor) comes putt-puff-puttedy-chuff-ing down the hill to entice his terrified bovine buddy successfully back to dry ground. Continuing to find inspiration in the work of Virginia Lee Burton, Munro Leaf and other illustrators of the past, Long ( The Little Engine That Could, 2005) offers an aw-shucks friendship tale that features a small but hardworking tractor (“putt puff puttedy chuff”) with a Little Toot–style face and a big-eared young descendant of Ferdinand the bull who gets stuck in deep, gooey mud.
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