Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg

This totally stunning pop-up book illustrates how a mistake can be turned around and lead to something fantastic. It is brimming with fascinating ideas and endless opportunities to talk about how to turn an ‘oops’ into something beautiful. 

Beautiful OOPS! presents a mistake and then demonstrates how the mistake can be transformed into something new. Readers will be surprised, amused and inspired by the unique format of the different pop-ups in this book, and will love discovering what comes next.  

Reading this book together and talking about the creations will help your child to build the mindset that mistakes are not mistakes, they are opportunities. It encourages the reader to think creatively while promoting resilience. In life, mistakes and accidents happen but they can be fixed, mended or improved upon, so don’t need to feel like the end of the world.  

We love how Saltzberg presents mistakes to inspire imagination and that many “oops” moments can turn out to be surprising if they are thought about creatively. After reading Beautiful OOPS! you and your child could try making some ‘mistake artwork’ together.