The Thing Lou Couldn't Do

Reviewed by: Jill OConnor - North Yarmouth Academy, Yarmouth, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: June 13, 2017

Review

Lou can do a lot of things, almost anything that she puts her mind to, but when her friends want to play pirate up in a tree, Lou realizes that she has never climbed a tree before and now discovers that she cannot climb one. She frets over her inability to climb and then she takes measures to correct this flaw, and she almost makes it, but not quite. However, her attempt to climb that tree shows her that though she did not actually get up into the tree, she saw hope that she could get up into the tree with further attempts. A great book about the power and importance of failure and a perfectly illustrated example of "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Spires illustrations are exquisite with many details and plenty of white space for the viewer to fill in the rest of the picture. A great follow-up to The Most Magnificent Thing. Here's hoping for more STEAM books from Spires!

Overall Book Score: excellent