

The smudge becomes the face of a bunny, a crumpled ball of paper turns into a lamb’s fleecy coat-celebrate the oops in life.įind this book at your local library or to purchase, please use the affiliate link provided for your convenience. A singular work of imagination, creativity, and paper engineering, Beautiful Oops! is filled with pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, tears, holes, overlays, bends, smudges, and even an accordion “telescope”-each demonstrating the magical transformation from blunder to wonder. And an accidental tear in your paper? Don’t be upset about it when you can turn it into the roaring mouth of an alligator.īarney Saltzberg, the effervescent spirit behind Good Egg, offers a one-of-a-kind interactive book that shows young readers how every mistake is an opportunity to make something beautiful. A spill doesn’t ruin a drawing-not when it becomes the shape of a goofy animal. In fact, hooray for mistakes! A mistake is an adventure in creativity, a portal of discovery.

We talk about having your mistakes turn into something else, she said. 'Theres a thing called a Beautiful Oops in elementary school. What if we turned that around and let them know we all make mistakes… and that is a good thing.Ī life lesson that all parents want their children to learn: It’s OK to make a mistake. If she messes up, she starts over and perseveres. When many of our sensory kids “fail,” they have a hard time managing the emotions that go with that.
