Kit Shares with a Friend: Sharing Is Fun

Kit made something wonderful. Kit said it out loud. Now Kit looks around. Sparks is here. A friend is here. The friend's eyes get big. Kit knows that look. Kit smiles, takes a deep breath, and offers a turn.

Sharing is the bridge between making and belonging. Adult inventors call it "diffusion of innovation." Toddlers call it "Here, you try." Either way, the lesson is the same: a creation grows in value when more than one person uses it. Kit shows your child that giving a turn does not subtract from being the maker.

Book 11 is also where Kit learns to negotiate. The friend wants longer. Kit wants the turn back. Sparks helps both children find a fair middle. The book ends with both children using the invention together, which turns out to be the most fun part of all.

Illustrated in watercolor with two children sharing a single page in nearly every spread. Sturdy board pages. Free narrated read-aloud with both Kit's voice and the friend's voice. Free educator guide with a "share my creation" classroom routine teachers can adopt.

For parents whose child is learning to take turns. For preschool teachers building social emotional skills. For families raising a child who knows their work is a gift to share, not a thing to hoard.

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.

Book 11 is part of Kit's Little Sparks, a 20 book board book series that walks young children through five developmental phases of an inventor: wondering, making, sharing, growing together, and becoming. Book 11 opens Phase 3, Sharing. Book 12 is where Kit learns that a name is not enough; sometimes a creation needs a mark of its own.