Keep trying when learning gets hard.
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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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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 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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The family keeps adding coins to the big jar over time, until there is enough to buy the chair and mark their recovery.
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Sophia’s knitting is hard going, with dropped stitches along the way. She finishes anyway, covers the mistakes with twenty pompoms and gives the hat to Mrs. Goldman.
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Humpty builds his paper airplane painstakingly, through several attempts that cost him papercuts. The plane that finally lands on top of the wall leads him to the climb.
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Learning on Mom’s old skateboard means falling and trying again, at the playground, the basketball court and Auntie’s place. All of that practice comes before the skatepark.
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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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