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A THOUSAND NO'S is a cute picture book about the way that feedback can change an idea. A girl has an idea, but she gets her first NO. It feels awful, but she places it inside, and it changes it. She gets another NO and then some more, and soon, her idea is hard to handle, so she needs to get help. After she gets her thousandth NO, her idea has turned into something else- a YES!

This book has a simple idea- how criticism changes our ideas, sometimes for the better. The illustrations are really simple, sketches in black and white, except for the final YES. If you think about it too hard, it loses its appeal, but at the simplest surface level, it is a cute book about persistence and evolving ideas.

I would recommend for children who enjoy simple illustrations and cute ideas. The word art here is really well done.