Chris Kuczynski

I have spent over 30 years working with inventors as an engineer and United States Patent and Trademark Office registered patent attorney. I have helped people patent everything from automotive components to medical devices, and what I learned across all those projects is that invention isn't a talent. It's a process. Notice. Sketch. Try. Fail. Fix. Show. Claim.

In 2015 I co-founded a preschool. And every single day I watched 2 and 3-year-olds run that exact same process. Cardboard. Tape. Trial and error. Big claims about what they'd just built. I watched young children invent constantly: building, drawing, naming, sharing, and questioning. Kit's Little Sparks grew out of that intersection. The same arc I'd been documenting for grown-up inventors my whole career.

This debut series, Kit's Little Sparks, is a collection of 20 board books that introduces children ages 2 and up to the foundations of creativity, problem solving, and intellectual property. Each book follows Kit and his friends as they notice problems, sketch ideas, build prototypes, and learn the value of kindness, curiosity, and honest credit.

Kit's Big Ideas is the library I wished existed: forty books across three age-tiered series, designed to plant the inventor's mindset at age 2, hand a child the tools at age 4, and put them to work at age 6. Series 1 is here. Series 2 and Series 3 are in the works. Sign up for the first-look list and I'll let you know the moment each one is ready.

Visit Little Sparks Books website for free read-aloud videos, printable activity sheets, and educator guides for every book in the series. Kit's Little Sparks is the first of several series I am writing for young readers.