Hello, friends! Today’s review is The Book Of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken, a positively charming story about how mistakes can often turn out to be just what we need.

It all starts with one mistake: an artist, drawing a girl, makes one eye a bit larger than the other. Trying to correct by making the smaller eye bigger doesn’t help; now that eye is bigger than the other one was! So the artist draws glasses to hide the uneven eyes, which works perfectly. And on it goes: the artist makes mistakes, but finds increasingly creative ways to cover them that end up making the drawing even more beautiful. And at last, the drawing is finished, and the reader is left with the lesson that mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of – oftentimes, they make us even better than we were before.

We LOVED this one. What a fabulous lesson to teach children, that making mistakes is a natural part of life, and can help us to grow and change in ways we wouldn’t otherwise. And the way this was woven into the clever, then exciting, then absolutely majestic visuals of the illustrations was perfection. The length was great, and JJ and I both enjoyed it so much. This is one that should be read to every little bookworm, encouraging them to take risks, create art, be themselves and, most importantly, make mistakes. Baby Bookworm approved!