The drawing never starts because it might come out wrong, the paper is erased into a hole, one mistake on the homework brings tears — and anything they cannot already do well gets refused outright. Each book here does the same quiet work from a different angle: it takes the fear of getting it wrong and turns the mistake into part of making something. Pick the one that fits your child, by their age and by what's tripping them up, whether it's art, or school, or just the general weight of having to be perfect.
These six books all take aim at the same knot, the fear of getting things wrong, and each undoes it a little differently, so the shelf works by fit rather than by order. The gentlest way in is The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes, a funny picture book that names the exact fear a perfectionist child carries and then lets its heroine survive her first public mistake, so it's flagged as the start-here for a child who's never had the feeling put into words for them. From there, pick by what's tripping your child up. For the youngest, and for the child who crumples every drawing, Beautiful Oops! and Ish both turn the ruined page into the beginning of something, one through interactive flaps and tears, the other through a word, 'ish', a child can carry around. The Most Magnificent Thing is for the maker who rage-quits, the frustration and the walk to cool down drawn with total sympathy. And for older children reading on their own, Absolutely Almost is the tender novel about a boy who's always 'almost' and learns it's still worth a lot, while Frazzled turns the panic of not being special at anything into wall-to-wall comedy. No single one is the whole answer, but any one of them, matched to the right child, can be exactly the book they needed.