And if I could just speak from my own experience: please let that thick book be designed to be used with the kit it comes with.
I know that sounds like a no-brainer, but I couldn’t do half the activities and experiments in the book my first chemistry set came with. The manufacturer made two distinctly different chemistry sets but cut costs by having only one instruction book. If my parents had heard the stream of expletives I let loose when I discovered I couldn’t make the purple gel I would still be grounded.
