These stories do not make hard things look easy. Their characters pause, practice, change the plan, and find a reason to try again.
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A girl and her dog try again and again to make something magnificent, but nothing matches her plan. After she takes a break, she goes back to the project and finishes it.
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Peter’s first tries at whistling fail. He keeps practicing, between playing around the neighborhood and trying on his father’s hat, until it works.
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Louis Braille loses his sight in childhood and wants to read. The raised-letter books at his school in Paris don’t give him the access he wants, so he keeps working on a better way.
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A girl in 1930s Cuba longs to drum when drumming is only for boys. She finds drums and keeps practicing, and her father eventually arranges a teacher who sees her ability.
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