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Heidi's Journey to Mastery: Through Diligence
Hardcover
FamilyGeneral Juvenile FictionScience & Nature
Publisher Price: $28.99
ISBN13: 9781997027096
Publisher: Papawa Press
Published: Aug 16 2026
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Seven-year-old Heidi dreams of inventions. Solar cars. Wind-turbine bridges. A small robot to clean the lake outside her grandfather's workshop in Granholm. So when she finally crosses the threshold of Anders's workshop, she expects gears and tools and a notebook. Instead, he hands her a broom.
Month after month, she sweeps. Then she sorts parts. Then she watches. Then she asks. And one day, deep in winter, Anders pulls back the cloth from a workbench, and Heidi begins to build. Failures pile up. Notebook entries fill. The bot falls apart and comes back together a dozen times. And then, one summer afternoon by the lake, the bot stands up on its own.
A picture book about diligence - the unglamorous truth that mastery is built one small careful thing at a time. For the child who wants to skip ahead, and for the grown-ups who know why slowing down matters.
Perfect for: STEM-curious readers, classroom conversations about practice and perseverance, intergenerational reading, ages 5 to 9.
From the Eva Gallo Collection. A portion of proceeds supports the Sen Yakaar Foundation.
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