The Moon Bakery
When one mistake spoils everything
The drawing is wrong, the letter is wobbly, and your child wants to give up. In this story the cookies come out crooked, and your child learns to say "Oops means learning!", change one small thing and try again, until there are cookies for everyone.
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Helps with
Mistakes
Mistakes and frustration: staying kind to yourself when things go wrong, and trying again.
The tool your child practises in the story
Oops means learning
When something goes wrong, first take a breath and say "Oops means learning!" together. Then look at what happened, choose one small thing to change, and try again. Keep it light, and use it for your own mistakes too.
For grown-ups
What this story is about
At a magical bakery on the moon, your child wants to bake perfect cookies for the stars, and some go wrong: too flat, burnt, flour everywhere. The frustration is real, and the kind baker makes mistakes too, and laughs. Your child works out what went wrong and changes one thing, and when the last star cookie breaks with no one there to help, mends it alone: a bit crooked, still a star.
Three ways to talk about it
- Name the frustration before fixing anything: "You worked so hard and it went flat. That is really annoying."
- Let your child see your own mistakes, and say "oops means learning" out loud when they happen.
- Praise the trying and the changing: "You noticed what happened and tried a new way."
Three questions to ask
- How did you feel when the cookies came out flat?
- What did Baker Bun do after dropping the egg?
- What is something you got better at by trying again?
Practise the tool together: Oops means learning
When something goes wrong, first take a breath and say "Oops means learning!" together. Then look at what happened, choose one small thing to change, and try again. Keep it light, and use it for your own mistakes too.
If your child's frustration is very strong, lasts for weeks, or often ends in big meltdowns or giving up on everything, it is worth talking to your paediatrician or a child psychologist.
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- A hardcover built to last, for years of bedtime stories.
Look inside
Twelve illustrated spreads: the picture on the left, the story on the right. These sample pages show an invented child called Ben.
It was a little round bakery with a crescent-shaped chimney puffing sugary clouds. In the doorway stood Baker Bun, a cheerful moon-rabbit in a small blue hat. "Just in time! Tonight the stars come for their cookies, and I have far too many to bake." Bun held out a wooden spoon. "Will you help?" Ben grabbed it. "I've never baked for a star. I'll make them perfect!"
"Oops means learning," said Ben, very quietly, and poked the flat blob. It was shiny and slippery. "I put in too much butter. Didn't I?" "Let's find out," said Baker Bun. So: one lump of butter this time. Only one. Mix, roll, cut, bake... Ding! The little moons kept their shape! Well... almost.
Knock, knock! The stars had come. Ben handed out golden moons, almost-moons and crunchy pieces of the big flat blob. "Moon-crumble!" announced Baker Bun. Crunch, crunch. Then the brightest star of all floated forward. It looked at the plate. It looked at the big crooked star. "That one, please," it twinkled. Crunch. Soon all five of its points were covered in crumbs.
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