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1) Not perfect
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Dot grows increasingly frustrated that she is not perfect at anything.
2) The good egg
Author
Language
English
Description
When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Marigold the cat likes everything just so, but when he sets out to bake a perfect cake one Monday, he is interrupted by one finch, two pigeons, and three loons.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mao Mao, a perfectionist Panda, is determined to teach his messy new classmate the art of perfectionism but ends up discovering the joys of embracing imperfection.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
When party-crashing birds ruin Marigold's magic act during his otherwise perfect birthday party, he makes all of his guests disappear before recalling the magic words to bring them back.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
Español
Description
Nuestro protagonista es un huevo muy bueno: te riega las plantas, te cambia los neumáticos ¡y hasta te pinta la casa! Si necesitas ayuda para lo que sea, él es tu huevo. Pero, a veces, ser demasiado bueno no da el mejor resultado...
When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.
7) Perfect
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Author Waka T. Brown and artist Yuko Jones join forces for this picture book about a young girl who learns to appreciate life's imperfections when her grandmother teachers her about the Japanese art form kintsugi. Miki Amelia Masuda liked everything in her life to be perfect. Her room was immaculately clean. She only ate round cookies, not the broken ones. And if a stuffed animal had a tear in it, she couldn't bear to look at it. So when she accidentally...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Beaver's friends insist on baking him a birthday cake, but Beaver, the ultimate perfectionist, would rather do it himself, and in doing so realizes perfection does not necessarily mean perfect.
9) Perfect game
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Publication Date
c2013
Physical Desc
143 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Isaac is a perfectionist, especially when it comes to baseball, and is unable to cope when things go wrong until his coach asks him to help out with a Unified Sports basketball team on which intellectually-disabled and other children play together.
11) Cat's new book
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2026.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cat has a new book! Its cover is clean. Its pages are nice and smooth. It even smells good! He can read it whenever he likes, because it's all his, and he plans to keep it looking new forever. But then Mole asks to read it. And then Frog. And then Tortoise. After so much sharing, Cat's perfect new book is sandy and stained and ... not so new anymore. This makes Cat sad. What will it take for Cat to learn what really makes books special?" Front book...
12) Elfie unperfect
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a series of spectacular--and at times, hilarious--disasters, including being expelled from school, perfectionist Elfie Oster discovers what truly matters as she tries to make sense of everything that is happening to her.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Finn is not like most frogs. Finn likes things clean-- perfectly clean. His book is immaculate. It's amazing. It's PERFECT. (Well, according to him). When an oopy, goopy mess starts creeping its way onto his pages, Finn is determined to fix it. But not all messes can be fixed. And not all messes should be fixed. Can Finn learn to live with the fact that his book will never be the same?
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighth-graders Evelyn and Allie are in trouble. Evelyn's constant need for perfection has blown some fuses among her robotics teammates, and she's worried nobody's taking the upcoming competition seriously. Allie is new to school, and she's had a history of short-circuiting on teachers and other kids. So when Allie is assigned to the robotics team as a last resort, all Evelyn can see is just another wrench in the works! But as Allie confronts a past...
Author
Publisher
Buzzbook Press
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Finn LOVES being a frog - But he thinks it's time for a few upgrades. His reader exhibits true artistic talent, earning the green light to make alterations. Will Finn regret handing the crayons over to a kid?--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ultra-high-achiever Viviana Rabinovich-Lowe learns something they never covered in her AP courses: that it's okay to be less than perfect, because it's our imperfections that make us who we are."
Viviana Rabinovich-Lowe's quest for perfection is derailed when her boyfriend leaks secret pictures of her to the entire school-- pictures no one was ever meant to see. On top of this her parents might be getting divorced. For the first time, Vivi feels...