SuitabookSkypig
Jan L. Coates
- Reading
- Pause after each new idea to let the child predict what might happen, then revisit the crash without treating it as the final answer. Afterwards, invite them to name different ways someone might ‘soar’.
- Themes
- Persistence and changing the goal: Ollie keeps trying different ways to fly, and Jack recognises that failing to fly in those ways does not prevent another form of soaring. The book appears to value continued effort while also allowing the goal or method to be reimagined.
- Friendship and support: Jack participates in Ollie’s ideas and later understands that Ollie may soar without achieving flight through the tested inventions. Friendship is presented as joining someone’s efforts and recognising their possibilities, rather than defining success for them.
- Worth knowing
- The crash and the repeated failed attempts may merit a brief check-in, especially for a child who finds setbacks upsetting.