Kit Tries Again: Oops! Almost! (Kit's Little Sparks, Band 7) - Hardcover

Kuczynski, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 196847045X ISBN 13: 9781968470456

Verlag: Little Sparks Books, 2026

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Book 7 of Kit's Little Sparks. By Chris Kuczynski, an engineer turned patent attorney and a co-founder of a preschool. Kit built something. It did not work. Oops! Kit's face says it all. Then Sparks gives Kit a small nudge. Try again. So Kit does. The second try is closer. The third try works. The fourth try works better. This is the single most important book in the series. Resilience is not a personality trait. It is a learned behavior, and it is learned by watching characters fail, accept the failure, and try again on purpose. Adult inventors call this "iteration." Toddlers call it "Oops, again!" The neuroscience is identical: the brain learns more from a near-miss than from a clean win. Book 7 builds the foundation for everything that comes after. Without Try Again, the inventor's mindset collapses. Kit shows your child what falling looks like, what getting up looks like, and what slightly-better looks like. The illustrations are intentionally honest: the broken thing is broken, the new attempt is rough, the eventual success is modest. Illustrated in watercolor with hand-drawn arrows showing each iteration. Sturdy board pages. Free read-along audio with intentional pauses where children can shout "TRY AGAIN!" Free educator guide with a parent-and-child failure journal. For parents whose child gives up the moment something is hard. For preschool teachers building grit and growth mindset. For caregivers who want to model "Oops!" themselves. Written by Chris Kuczynski, an engineer for the first twelve years of his career, then a registered patent attorney, and a co-founder of a preschool. He wrote the Kit's Little Sparks series to give two to four year olds the language of invention long before kindergarten. Talk about a time you tried something and it did not work. Then tell your child how you tried again. Make the story specific. Children remember what their grown-ups failed at and survived. Book 8 is what happens when the second try gets better.

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Chris Kuczynski has been building things since he was twelve. He earned his engineering degree from the University of Washington and spent the next twelve years as a working engineer before a new question took hold: how do you protect an idea so the world can benefit from it? That question led him to patent law, where he has spent over two decades helping inventors turn ideas into protected, world changing creations. In 2015, Chris co-founded a preschool, and something clicked. He watched toddlers do the exact same things his inventors did. They observed. They sketched (in crayon). They built, failed, rebuilt, and celebrated. The only difference was that nobody had told them what to call it yet. Kit's Little Sparks series of books is the result of those two worlds colliding. The series teaches children the social and emotional components of the inventors mindset and the foundations of inventing through play based storytelling. Each book introduces a new friend, a new challenge, and a new concept drawn directly from the patent process, all wrapped in watercolor illustrations and language designed for the smallest minds with the biggest ideas. Chris still takes things apart to see how they work.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Little Sparks Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 196847045X
• ISBN 13: 9781968470456
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 26
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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