THE BAD SEED

By Jory John

A Beatrix approved book:

This is a fun book to read aloud:

I love that he DECIDES to be happy and that he is trying! This could be a great book to talk about the Growth Mindset.

And he “keeps trying”. And guess what? He is not a bad seed after all! 🙂

Each child got this after the story:

Beatrix is a good seed too.

You can get the card above here, just add a sunflower seed:

Of course I had to have sunflowers on the projector:

For more ideas to go with this book go here:


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