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# Try Your Best, Forget The Rest

Heath McKenzie · author

Ages 3–5EnglishHardcoverValues & CharacterPicture Books

What if I'm not the fastest? What if they laugh? The school fun run is coming, and the nerves are real. A reassuring story about effort, courage, and being proud of trying your best.

- A reassuring story about effort, courage, and resilience
- Tackles the fear of not being good enough
- Set around a relatable school fun run
- Funny, warm illustrations by Heath McKenzie
- Builds self-belief without pressure or preaching
- Part of the much-loved Life Lessons picture-book series

Why It Matters

Try Your Best, Forget The Rest steps into a feeling every child knows: the worry of not being good enough. As a school fun run approaches, its young narrator frets about being slow or being teased, and learns that giving something your honest best is what really counts.

With Heath McKenzie's funny, warm illustrations, it gently builds resilience and self-belief around the everyday challenges, the hard, the scary, and the effortful, that all children face.

## About this book

Some of the biggest feelings in childhood come from comparing ourselves to others, and this book meets that head-on. With a school fun run looming, its narrator worries about being the slowest and about what everyone else will think, fears that will ring true for almost any young reader.

Heath McKenzie's humour keeps the tone light while the story quietly builds a message worth keeping: effort matters more than winning, and trying your best is something to be proud of. Children see their own nerves reflected and come away a little braver.

It is a genuinely reassuring read for anything that feels impossibly hard or needs practice and courage, from sports day to a new skill. A gentle confidence-builder that helps children forget the comparisons and focus on their own best try.

## Book Details

Age

Ages 3–5

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

9780655232889

Binding

hardcover

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