An easy, no-nonsense approach to tackling the anxiety-inducing problem of making mistakes. This book serves as a perfect guide for children and adults to work through the complex emotions of trying new things and learning to value a growth mindset. Psychology terms are explained in simple terms that make it easier to breach topics that might stress out young ones. This title is best suited for children through the elementary grades (K-6) and their care givers. Simple illustrations make the book attractive to young readers and serve to offer examples to guide discussion around open-ended questions of the book. Fun facts are peppered throughout that highlight famous individuals who succeeded by fostering a growth mindset and persevering. A perfect addition for classroom or personal libraries.

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This book is chock full of resources and information. My 9 and 11 year olds have some worries and anxiety. I like that they can read this on their own and we can read it together. It's very child friendly and factual. There are some great exercises in here for kids to do to help build their skill set and resilience in the face of worries.

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Facing Mighty Fears about Making Mistakes is another book in the series by Dawn Huebner. In this book, the topic focuses on fears from making mistakes. The book starts by explaining how our brains work the goes on to explain about anxiety and fears in a way that children understand and can relate to. I loved the fun facts across each section, which were interesting and relatable for kids at times, too, and helped make the book feel less rigid. The breathing exercises are very useful and easy to do, and the steps to follow in regards to anxiety and worry were simple to understand and follow too. The back of the book has more information for parents/carers and also a link to access several videos to help support you and your child, too.

This was a humorous read that keeps you engaged in the text. I found the section on the brain quite interesting and also as an adult theye were some things that really resonated with me especially that I still fear making mistakes or messing up.

I found this eArc to be hard to follow but did preserve and finished.

I would recommend this to people of all ages.

I read Facing Mighty Fears about Making Mistakes with my 7 year old and while we were able to take a couple of things from it, it was hard to follow in the Kindle format. My husband listened to part of it and pointed out that Michael Jordan wasn’t kicked off the basketball team, he just didn’t make the varsity team his freshman year. I was hoping this book would help my daughter with her anxiety about being wrong but it missed the mark for her.
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book for my honest opinion.

This was another great installment of the Mighty Fears books. We love Dawn Huebner's books in our house - kiddo (9) really relates to them and finds them helpful.

This one starts out with a section about the brain and how it works and how exactly new pathways get made and cemented. Kiddo was very into this section, as he is very interested in the brain and how it works.

Kiddo isn't crippled by a fear of mistakes like some kids can be, but he definitely struggles with it and listened very intently as we read through the book. He practiced the various forms of breathing exercises and picked out a word to use when he makes a mistake when prompted by the text.

There are many fun facts about people making mistakes and requiring many tries before getting a new invention right. These do break up the text a little bit and maybe reduce the impact of it. Next time I think I'll read through it first and then read the fun facts separately.

The steps outlined here are very simple, which makes them easy to remember and hopefully would be in the moment. I can definitely see how they could be very helpful for anyone who struggles with a fear of mistakes. I get defensive when someone points out a mistake or a criticism so I may try to follow the steps as well.

The text also employs humor well to keep kids engaged. We read the entire thing in one night as a bedtime story and will likely read it several more times in the upcoming weeks.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Jessica Kingsley Publishers for providing an early copy for review.