All the Ways to be Smart: the beautifully illustrated international bestseller that celebrates the talents of every child

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Whether you are inquisitive, daring, caring and kind or the type of smart person who can spell really long dinosaur names, Bell's touching rhyming text quietly reinforces the value and diversity of intelligence in all its many guises and its partnership with ability, like 'finding treasures' and 'flower picking'. It would be cool to do a spin off of this and have kids dive into all they ways that they are smart! I have noticed that in year 1, a lot of children begin to get a fixed mindset when it comes to their ability and it would be very beneficial to remind them that smartness isn’t about how well they do on a maths test, it is much more about how they act, how they respond to each other and how they think. I loved the joy and breeziness of the illustrations paired with validating words on all the amazing ways you can be smart. This book was such a lovely way to say that all children are smart at different things but that doesn’t make anyone more or less smart.

A joyful and exquisitely illustrated book that celebrates all children, and the many unique and wonderful ways to be smart.

In this cheerful exploration of all the nonstandard ways a person can be smart, the creators paint an expansive picture of intelligence that goes well beyond ‘being best/at spelling bees,/a tricky test.

While All the Ways to Be Smart would be an amazing addition for preschool and elementary classrooms, especially in this school climate where children worry at younger and younger ages about their performances in reading, writing, and math, the way Bell wrote this book makes it perfect to read one on one with a child you love at home as well. Every page of this book in joyous, imaginative and life-affirming … All the Ways to be Smart is a celebration of what childhood can be, and it will likely become a classic.All The Ways to be Smart is an earnest and charming book celebrating the joys of all the wonderful qualities that make children who they are. I appreciated the narrative, with its message about the many kinds of intelligence - emotional intelligence, creative intelligence - since I think many people (including kids) might think that academic intelligence is the only sort that matters.