In a recent article in Literacy Today, Summer Clark and Grace Enriquez (Lesley University) and Jessica Della Calce (Cambridge Public Schools) suggested children’s books that foster the characteristics of a growth mindset: perseverance, flexibility, strategic thinking, multiple perspectives, a sense of personal agency, and a belief that people can become smarter and more skillful, intelligent, thoughtful, and just:
After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again by Dan Santat
The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken
Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
Ish by Peter Reynolds
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers
(courtesy of Kim Marshall, The Marshall Memo)
