The Girl Who Makes A Million Mistakes: A Growth Mindset Book for Kids to Boost Confidence, Self-Esteem and Resilience

by Brenda Li

A powerful, award-winning growth mindset book that builds resilience in children and prepares them for life's adversities. Kids will feel strong, confident, and ready to pursue their biggest dreams!

“This inspiring story teaches kids that it's okay to make mistakes. It regulates difficult emotions and shows young minds how to turn frustration into perseverance.” - Teacher Review

Includes effective mindful, positive affirmations to build self-esteem and
"I can do this. I am strong. I am unstoppable."

Tangled hair.
Missing Teeth.
Millie's track and field race turns into a HUGE mess as she makes mistakes after mistakes.

This young girl dreams of being a top athlete.
But whatever she does, she messes up.
Millie squeezes too much toothpaste, uses too much glue, spills milk all over and spells 'banana' wrong.
When she repeatedly makes errors in the race, she feels frustrated and discouraged.
She even ends up in a tree!

Will she quit?
Will she ever become an amazing athlete she aspires to be?

See how Millie finally succeeds through learning, creative problem solving, mental toughness and determination!
This powerful book builds self-esteem and self-confidence in kids, allowing them to feel determined about their goals.


This motivational reading book teaches

That it's okay to make mistakesTo learn from mistakes and bounce backTo develop mental toughnessTo practice mindful affirmationsTo never give up your goals
From the award-winning creator of best selling series, Pig in Jeans, this heartwarming, fun and educational book is a must-have for all school classrooms, libraries, teachers, librarians and perfectionists! If you like The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes, The Magical Yet, and This Book is Perfect, you will fall in love with The Girl Who Makes A Million Mistakes.

Order your copy of The Girl Who Makes A Million Mistakes today and watch your child build self-esteem and self-confidence! Makes a great gift for boys and girls age 4, age 5, age 6, age 7, kindergarten, first grade (1st grade) and second grade (2nd grade).

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Growth Mindset, Parenting

Kindle Edition

Published September 3, 2024

Reviews

[Bibi Sofia Haq · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

Me and my daughter have really enjoyed reading this beautifully illustrated book.The book has some powerful message.
It’s okay to make mistake
Learn from your mistakes and move on.
Never give up on your goals.

I would highly recommend this book

[Rose Haskins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute

A cute story showing children how everyone can make mistakes. But also that you can learn from them and do better.

[S.A. Krishnan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful story for children
Millie makes plenty of mistakes. And she is also a fast runner, but she is unable to stop herself while running fast and creates more accidents. However, Millie decides to participate in a hurdle race. What happens after that?
Lovely inspirational story for children and neat illustrations.

[Dianne Gouin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delightful!

The Girl Who Makes Mistakes is a fun way to teach children perseverance. Millie doesn’t give up! The drawings are delightful!

[Holly Kilbert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute but a bit wordy for my 4yo.

[Na kávu s Terezou · Rating 3 out of 5]

Má to nádherné ilustrace! 🩵
Tohle je super pro všechny rodiče a jejich děti :)

3,75

[Mary Marjorie Reyes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brenda li made this book a long time ago it took years and years that's a lot of time to create

I saw that the girl made a million mistakes that's a lot of mistakes! That's really really really really really a lot

[D'Amica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lessons

Lots of lessons to br learned from this book I'm glad we read it my 8 year old enjoyed it

[Ioana · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Fetița care făcea un milion de greșeli" și "Băiețelul care făcea un milion de greșeli" de Brenda Li (trad. Maria Tănăsescu) sunt 2️⃣ lecturi amuzante despre încrederea de sine, ambiție și perseverență 🤍 Perfecte pentru copiii începând cu 3 ani, cărțile aduc zâmbete în familie și îi învață pe cei mici despre muncă, eșec și împlinirea visurilor 📖 Mai multe despre cele două volume din colecția ZYX Kids am scris într-un articol publicat pe blog ✍️

https://ciobanuldeazi.home.blog/2025/...

[Brandon · Rating 5 out of 5]

good book

My 8 year old son liked it. It was cool and had very good style he said. Would read again.

[Ashly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funny book

This is a really funny book. My 4 year old daughter just loved it. And I enjoyed so much as well.

[Valencia Nkambule · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funny story about a brave and determined little girl I

Millie is a determined little girl who make lots of mistakes but she learns from them to and uses her determination and positive spirit to achieve h er goals.

[Zowie Norris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Resilience & Positivity Helps!

As a teacher and a mum, I’ve found that children need to be taught how to develop a growth mindset and develop resilience and confidence to improve and learn. This book is perfect for promoting this with young children from the start.
Meet the adorable and clumsy Millie- a girl who keeps making mistakes and breaking things. She is embarrassed by her actions but doesn’t stop trying to achieve her dreams- will she succeed?
Complete with fun, child-like illustrations too. What is there not to love about this book!

[Victor Trussell · Rating 5 out of 5]

what a fun read!

This book is a wild ride! While kids will obviously love the story of a child who can’t seem to get things right, they will be WOW’d by how hilarious her antics are. A great message about using failures to inspire success. I can easily see this being a bookshelf favorite. I already want to read it again!

[Andrew Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Fun Read

Millie is a really fun character. Her antics will have parents and kids chuckling. The book is also a great way to remind kids to keep pushing through, even when they make “a million mistakes”.

[Sarina Siebenaler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Comical and Fun with loads of Mistakes! 🥰

Mistakes are growth and learning for all of us! This book made us laugh and cheer on Millie! What a beautiful story that will win the hearts of kids! Bonus laughs with those silly cats! 😂

[Michelle Wilmore · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mistakes aren't all bad

Aniyah liked the fact that the story explained how all mistakes aren't bad. As a grandparent, I was thrilled that the author taught the importance of practicing and correcting mistakes to get better. Easy read, too.

[surattana · Rating 5 out of 5]

very cute story

I love the story that so empowered the little girls to be more optimistic about her mistakes. Couldn’t agree more that mistakes is not that too bad like it seems. Love it !

[Kristin Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mistakes are Normal

I loved that mistakes are presented as a normal part of life and not a "bad" thing. And we can use our mistakes to help us learn and grow.

[El_bookle de Miroslava · Rating 5 out of 5]

Haz cometido muchos errores?

Amigos estoy muy feliz por traerles esta reseña de un libro que es un abrazo al corazón una historia sobre la mentalidad y el crecimiento como bien lo dice la portada de este libro.

Aquí nos encontraremos a Millie una pequeña que comete un millón de errores aprieta mucho el tubo de pasta de dientes, riega la leche etc jaja fácilmente puedo ser Millie 😅🤣.
Un día Millie tiene una carrera y ella quiere ser la mejor atleta del mundo esta decidida a ganar pero no contaba con que no sería nada fácil y comete nuevamente muchos errores que la hacen perder está carrera pero ella no se rinde y lucha y lucha para que en la siguiente carrera pueda irle mejor.

Es un libro hermoso lleno de ilustraciones ( arriba muestro imágenes del interior del libro) Ilustraciones que te harán súper divertida está historia y veremos cómo Millie no se rinde incluso ella solita se motiva con palabras de aliento y wow que bonito hubiera sido haber leído este libro de pequeña sentir esa motivación desde otro niño percibiéndola desde un libro seria genial 🥹 además es la etapa en la que más somos competitivos asi seria una genial motivación de este libro.

A mi me gusta mucho correr y hasta la fecha hago carreras en Trail y ver a la pequeña Millie no rendírse me ha dado alegría para sacar mis entrenamientos jeje

Un librazo que les súper recomiendo para chicos y grandes.
Así que no te quedes con la duda logrará Millie ganar esa carrera y ser una de las mejores atletas del mundo😲? Te invito a descubrirlo😉

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[Isabella Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story is about a girl named Millie who makes a million mistakes. She spills things, breaks things, adds too much glue. Millie has a dream of being an athlete so she signs up for a race. During the race, she forgets to jump and makes more mistakes. One mistake leads her to getting stuck in a tall tree. In order to get down, she has to solve the problem. Once down, she realizes that she can do anything she puts her mind to. She practices everyday, until the next race. In the end she learns that mistakes can become lessons once you put in the work.

I really liked this story, because it promotes a growth mindset in a easy and fun way for children to understand. Making mistakes is part of school, and Millie helps show how mistakes can help you to become even better.

I would use this at the beginning of the school year during a read aloud. Afterward, I would engage the class in a discussion about making mistakes and how we can learn from them. I would use this book as a way to build our classroom community by asking the kids questions about how they think Millie is feeling and what they could say to Millie. We could have a discussion about growth mindsets and do an activity. I would also leave this book out for them to reference throughout the year and if the students seem to need a refresher throughout the year, I would reread it to the class or in small groups.

[Brielle S · Rating 3 out of 5]

Inspiring

It was good and inspiring (Although I'm pretty sure Millie is a superhero with all the inhuman things she could do) but I disliked how her Mom seemed so proud and supportive and cheered her on in her first race... But didn't notice her daughter got stuck and even abandoned her and went home. Then when Millie gets herself unstuck and returns home, her Mom is like, "Where were you?" And I was just like 🤦‍♀️ really? She didn't even look for her or notice where she went. Aside from that, it was a cute book, I just don't think, in a children's book, it should be viewed as "ok" for a parent to be neglectful. I mean, even the Dad didn't go looking for his daughter. Plus, poor Millie accumulated so many injuries and no one ever took her to the dentist or doctor. 🙄 I don't typically review negatively on kids books, because I enjoy people's creativity and usually chock things up to "cartoon logic" (like why do the kids have blue hair and both parents have brown? I'm just assuming they adopted alien kids at this point, lol.)

[Yoselin Martínez · Rating 5 out of 5]

¿Quieres enseñarle a las infancias cómo transformar los errores en resiliencia?

“La chica que comete un millón de errores: Una historia sobre la mentalidad del crecimiento” de Brenda Li en colaboración con @nirvanalibrosinfantil

Si lo que necesitas en este momento dentro del hogar, o conoces algún pequeñito que podría apreciar un mensaje de perseverancia, aquí está la historia que buscabas. Todo esto la autora lo explica con la protagonista, Millie, quien está participando en una carrera atlética de obstáculos.

Conforme comienza a avanzar se va enfrentando a una serie de problema y la vemos cometer error tras error, y aunque su sueño es conquistar la meta, le ocurren muchas cosas que pareciera le impiden llegar.

Se llega a sentir frustrada y desanimada, pero gracias a su fortaleza mental, consigue solucionar cada problema en su camino, enseñando que está bien cometer errores, pero siempre debemos aprender de ellos para crecer.

Recomendado si disfrutas la literatura infantil, los libros ilustrados y los temas de psicología.

[Lou Hughes · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not sure how to rate this book. I understand how this could be used to help build confidence within children, but there was so much that felt weird about this book when reading it.

I do understand that childrens books aren't, by design; always realistic.

But a child getting stuck in a tree?

A child staying there all night and her parents not getting involved to help get her down?

I do see, how this book could be used to help build confidence within a child. But I also want to point out that someone running fast enough, especially a child, to break the jump hurdles; is unrealistic. I also think that the plot in general was just weird? I wouldn't read this book with my own kid. I think it's too far out there? It's alright as far as kids books go and I also think this would be todays generations version of totally chic? or Groovy chic? Both in illustration and plot-

But all around, it's just a weird book. I had an uncomfortable time reading it.

[Regina Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about a young girl who makes a bunch of mistakes. Regardless of the fact that she is continuously making mistakes she decides that she wants to pursue being an athlete. She tries running hurdles, but she fails. Instead of giving up on herself she decides that instead she will practice and work hard.
I enjoyed this book and found it to be inspirational. Sometimes we need to be reminded that just because we fail an activity the first time doesn’t mean we should give up, it means we should work harder.
I think this book would be great for kindergarten- 2nd grade. I would encourage students to set small goals for themselves and think about some steps they could take to turn their dreams into reality.

[Nohemibook · Rating 5 out of 5]

En esta historia conocemos a Millie, una niña con mucha energía que a veces comete muchos errores como apretar demasiado la pasta de dientes, derramar la leche o usar mucho pegamento y un día al tener una carrera Millie descubre que quiere ser una gran atleta pero no puede evitar cometer muchos errores en el camino, incluso termina en un árbol y aquí descubriremos si Millie puede lograrlo.

Este libro lleno de ilustraciones preciosas nos enseña que los errores que cometemos pueden ser algo bueno, un mensaje muy bonito para niños y adultos sobre como el cometer errores nos enseña a ser mejores siempre intentándolo de nuevo sin rendirse hasta lograr nuestros objetivos por lo que sin duda lo recomiendo mucho además seguro a los peques les encantará.

[Nadiyah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Written for very young readers and listeners, ages 4-8, this book stars Millie as the little girl who makes a million mistakes. Everything she tries, she does it with a mistake here or there, sometimes the mistakes are pretty big too. Her biggest mistake was also embarrassing to her and she decided that she wanted to make it right. She trained and was very determined to try again. Her determination inspired her very own family.
This story, about striving hard to overcome difficulties was very satisfying, especially when Millie successfully accomplished her goal.

[Addy Wooldridge · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a cute and silly book to read and would be a great book to read to a classroom. While the book talks about a girl making many mistakes and never seeming to get anything right, she doesn't let that get her down and she continues to stay positive and give herself pep talks working hard. Turning mistakes into hard work, the lesson of the book, is a great lesson for kids to learn at an early age since it teaches them to not give up even when they keep making mistakes, mistakes can be turned around into lessons on how to improve for next time.

[Alyssa Haton · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Girl Who Makes a Million Mistakes is a wonderful uplifting female children's book that takes us through the eyes and life of the main character Millie who is constantly making mistakes but pushes through all of them and never gives up. This book not only strives to entertain its readers but pushes the message of not giving up when things are hard. Themes represented in this story are, bravery, confidence, and identity. I would place this book in my kindergarten library to serve as a reminder to my kiddos that mistakes are okay and are a part of learning.

[Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

This story is such a great motivational story to read to our students that we all make mistakes in our life, but our mistakes help us to try harder and to keep going without giving up. I think this book can really help show our students we all make mistakes in life, but we shouldn't let it define us on who we are as a person and the things we can do. This will be a great addition to add in my classroom library for my students.