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This is a fun tale about taking a leap of faith and trying something new. Here are my top picks for promoting perseverance and growth mindset.īert is gathering up courage to launch into flight. Sharing picture books where characters are faced with and overcome challenges is a great starting point for teaching these important life lessons. The older I get, the more I come to realize that it is though failing that we succeed through disappointment that we develop resilience and through challenges we face that we grow stronger. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Teaching children to persevere through challenges is an important step in helping them develop a growth mind-set. Rendered in sepia tones and exemplifying a touching message, this wordless story is gracefully open to interpretation, containing a seed of wisdom for every reader. When a little boy's prized toy airplane lands on a rooftop, he makes several rescue attempts before devising an unexpected solution.

Kindness needs no words in this soaring tale that is ideal for gift-giving. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Hardcover. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc.

Somewhat reminiscent of Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree, this quiet book will captivate youngsters with its gentle charm.-Judith Constantinides, formerly at East Baton Rouge Parish Main Library, LAα(c) Copyright 2011. But when he tries to fly it, his arm is no longer strong enough, and the last spread shows a little girl holding a gift-wrapped box as the old man exits on the opposite page.

When he is an old man, he finds the tree has grown enough that he can climb it and reach the roof where the airplane is still waiting.

He has an idea he plants the seed and watches it grow to be a tree, as he grows older, too. After various fruitless attempts with a ladder, lasso, baseball, and water hose to retrieve it, the child sits down to think things over, and a seed falls from a tree. He takes it outside and flies it, but the plane unfortunately lands on a roof. A boy opens a wrapped package (presumably left for him by the man whose legs are seen walking off the opposite page), and he finds a toy airplane. PreS-This beautifully designed, beautifully illustrated picture book uses muted beiges and grays for pages resembling brown wrapping paper and spare ink drawings in brown and dark red to tell a wordless story.