![]() One day, when Albert was sick in bed, his father brought him a compass - a small round case with a magnetic needle inside. ![]() His parents worried that there might be something wrong, but loved him unconditionally. Instead, he “just looked around with his big curious eyes,” wondering about the world. The story begins with Albert’s birth - a beautiful but odd baby boy who turns one and doesn’t say a word, turns two, then three, and nary a word. This charming picture-book tells the tale of how an unusual and awkward child blossomed into becoming “the quintessential modern genius” by the sheer virtue of his unrelenting curiosity. ![]() ![]() Written by Jennifer Berne and illustrated by none other than Vladimir Radunsky - the same magnificent talent who brought young Mark Twain’s irreverent Advice to Little Girls back to life in 2013, which topped the list of the year’s best children’s books and was among the year’s best books overall. Thompson, Richard Feynman, Ella Fitzgerald, and Steve Jobs, I was instantly taken with On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein ( public library). Given my soft spot for picture-book and graphic-novel accounts of famous lives, including Charles Darwin, Julia Child, Hunter S. ![]()
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