The Biggest Mistake

The Children’s Book Committee of Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year List - Under Five (2024)

A perfect storytime pick about success, failure, and the danger of assumptions.

“It’s time to catch your own gazelle,” Papa Lion tells his little lion one morning. The cub thinks the task will be easy—which is his first mistake. He leaps on a gazelle, but it gets away from him. So the little lion laces up his sneakers, thinking he just has to outrun the gazelle—and ma...