Are you looking to grow your picture book collection about perseverance and overcoming challenges? This is one book you will want to definitely add to your classroom library and read again and again with your students this school year!

Failure Friday written by Andrea Burns is one of my new favorites that truly celebrates making mistakes and failure. This book tells the story of the main character who feels all of the pressure to be the perfect runner. After joining the run club and failing, she wants to immediately quit. As her story continues, she fails, and fails again, being teased along the way. After her teacher holds a lesson on celebrating failures, complete with confetti, the class has an awakening about what failure truly means. I love that this book goes one step further and offers a great way to get over failure…the PIE strategy! I am definitely going to be using this one at home and in the classroom!

As with all the amazing books from NCYI the topics and story are right on target for our upper elementary students with easily relatable topics and characters!