"The Most Magnificent Thing" is also good. Maybe too young for an 8 year old (but maybe not).

There are a lot of good books like "The Glorious Flight" which is about Paul Bleriot flying the English Channel. (His plane was "Bleriot 11" - so clearly the first few planes were not perfect - but he kept trying and working and learning so there is an implied perfectionism lesson there ...).


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