Joelle the Whale Shark Grew and Grew
Ben Okon
Joelle the Whale Shark Grew and Grew
Ben Okon
Learn how to BUILD RESILIENCE and OVERCOME CHALLENGES by using a GROWTH MINDSET while enjoying a beautiful, powerful, and engaging story with your kids! Nobody wants to fail, including Joelle, a large whale shark who just CAN'T seem to catch any fish...yet. Join Joelle as she learns to ignore the teasing of the faster, toothier sharks and finds her own ways of hunting that play to her strengths. She learns that - despite her size - true growth comes from resilience in the face of failure.
This motivational reading book teaches children AND adults:
That it's okay to make mistakes
To build a healthy relationship with failure
To build resilience and mental toughness
To find ways to play to your own strengths
To practice mental and verbal affirmations
For the nerds, the research behind Growth Mindset: Children with a growth mindset do better in school and have more mature behavioral outcomes (Burnette, Billingsley, et. al. 2023). Similar studies show that adults who persevere through failure have more success than those who never failed (Siegler, 2016). Finally, correlational studies have shown that when parents have a Growth Mindset, their children are more persistent when facing challenging problems (Smiley 2000, Jose/Bellamy 2012).
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