The Inventor's Desk
Show and Tell Is the Readiness Skill Nobody Tests: Kindergarten Transition and Books 17 and 20
NAEYC devoted its Spring 2026 magazine issue to the preschool-to-kindergarten transition, and California now offers transitional kindergarten to every four-year-old. Book 17 is about the one skill ...
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Andrea Beaty's Questioneers vs. Kit's Little Sparks: Which Age Is Right?
How the two series fit together. Short answer: Kit's Little Sparks is the prequel age. The Questioneers are the next chapter.
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A 50-Book Library That Grows With One Child From Age 2 to Age 12
Four age-tiered series, one inventor's journey. Here is the full map of the Kit's Little Sparks universe.
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Why I Wrote 20 STEM Books Instead of One Picture Book
The publishing math, the developmental math, and the patent-attorney math all pointed the same direction.
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Why Kit Puts His Mark on Everything He Makes
A patent attorney on the one idea behind intellectual property that a toddler can actually hold: credit belongs to the person who made the thing.
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