Epic Stories For Kids and Family - Accidental Discoveries That Changed Our World: Fascinating Origins of Discoveries and Inventions to Inspire Curious Young Readers (Books For Curious Kids)

This teaches a wonderful lesson for young people: not to just be curious but OBSERVANT. Over and over, the author shows by interesting short stories and delightful illustrations how needs and experiments produced unanticipated great results. In fact, mankind is where we are today because of keen observation, as the author shows: fire! I particularly enjoyed the origin story of WD-40. That plus masking tape are the inventions I most appreciated. Indeed, "Scotch" tape is another example shown here. Did you ever wonder where the name came from? Read this short book! But this book is not just about origins, but understanding how common "miracles" actually work, very informative. It's amazing how much has come from "accidents" being turned into marvels. Well-written, well-organized, and highly entertaining, this book is a treat for both wide-eyed youngsters and us jaded oldsters. Highly recommended!

This book is so much fun and full of interesting stories about the invention of things we see and use everyday. The stories are short and well written. This is great for kids and inspires creativity and fosters an inventive mind. I enjoyed reading the book and learning about the origin of things like Mountain Dew, scotch tape, and ivory soap. This makes a fun book for a stocking stuffer idea or a book to read during long road trips and plane rides.

This book is an excellent piece of Historical Fiction filled with science and technology. The Inventors and inventions are written for education and reference for teen and young adults. The stories are interesting and the artwork is appealing to all. These discoveries can be read to younger children to feed their curiosity on inventions around them. Enjoy all the great stories including the one about the Pharmacist from England inventing matches.

Written to be enjoyed for kids on up, I really enjoyed the preface at the start of Epic Stories for Kids and Family: Accidental Discoveries That Changed Our World. It turned the book into more than just a collection of historical mix-ups that turned out to be successes by offering some valuable life advice.The structure of Accidental Discoveries makes a lot of sense. Each discovery is given its own chapter and those chapters are grouped largely by the type of invention or discovery that had been made. Starting with some historical context, the reader learns what someone was trying to do followed by the accident that happened.The reading level seems right for the demographic, though younger children would need some help with it. Infused with humor, the bite-sized bits of history are both engaging and informative. Even as an adult, I hadn't heard of some of the stories. And the ones I had heard before, there were still expansions on.My only real complaint is with the close of each discovery. Every chapter ends with the reveal of what the accidental invention actually is. While I would like this near formula normally, I feel like this should only have been done if every section waited until the end to actually call the discovery by name. Some do, some don't. And unfortunately, the inconsistency bothered me a bit as I was reading. There were a few errors scattered throughout as well.Instilling a love of reading during childhood is very important, even more so for nonfiction in my opinion. That this one also pushes the idea that mistakes can sometimes be good things turns it into a title I would very much recommend to young readers. What would the world look like right now if some of the people and discoveries depicted hadn't taken the risk?I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Super interesting stories!!!My kids love these stories a lot.I learnt a lot too.I highly recommended this book.

The book is very good quality. I brought it for my 8 years old cousin who came for lunch. Very easy to read. Good knowledge for kid. My 8 years old cousin read this book for hours and shared the knowledge with all of us. Our family love this series.

Who would have ever imagined that the technology we use today for fingerprinting was discovered by accident. I suppose I never really thought about it, but it is pretty amazing.This book is filled with AMAZING facts. Really great for kids with a vivid imagination. No telling what they may be sparked to come up with!I would highly recommend purchasing. Fun for kids and adults alike!

Such a fun little read. I really enjoyed reading all these stories about accidental discoveries. I kept thinking my nephews (aged 11, 13, and 16) would love this! I enjoyed it so much, I will be recommending it. Well done.

In this book there are numerous short stories or descriptions... or at least something like them to describe many different events that you might have never guessed that caused some big inventions! ~Blox

I really like how this book is set out, each story is short and bite sized, yet contains enough information to be informative. The book has fun illustrations and is attractive to look at. There are lots of food/drink items in the book, and household items and other things ... that you would never have guessed how they were first accidentally discovered. A really interesting read for kids and adults, and will provide some fun knowledge to share with others.