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Boyer, Crispin

Famous Fails!: Mighty Mistakes, Mega Mishaps & How a Mess Can Lead to Success!

127 pp. | National | January, 2017 | Library ISBN 978-1-4263-2549-6 $22.90 | Paper ISBN 978-1-4263-2548-9 $12.99
(4) 4-6 This book employs National Geographic Kids' bright and busy magazine-style layout to tout failure as a means to achieve greater success. Examples include failed inventions, entrepreneurial miscalculations, scams, and other blunders. Each section discusses the (sometimes forced) lessons learned, and the hodgepodge volume concludes with a chapter on the therapeutic powers of losing. Ind.
Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin

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