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Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein (Trailblazer Biographies)

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Mc Pherson's well written biography of Einstein is sure to please young readers in their quest for knowledge. Its photographs are excellent in content and placement, and the text is superb. A must-read for anyone with children who wants them to appreciate this great man, deemed TIME's "Person of the Century"

This book is very informative. It is a great way to find information about Albert Einstein. I wrote a wonderful report using the information in this book. It explains his theorys of relativity in a simple understandable way.

I liked this book because it was very informative and interesting. It was short and quick and I found out things about Albert Einstein. It covers his background, personal life and professional life. As a boy he was fascinated with a compass and wanted to know why the arrow always pointed north. When his father told him about magnetic fields, he was very excited about magnetism. That was just the beginning of his quest for discovering new things. In addition to enjoying equations and explaining his theories in an understandable way, he played the violin and liked sailing too. He denounced his German citizenship and became a citizen of the United States, none of which I knew before reading this book.

His advice was to always ask questions and never lose your curiosity about things. A lot of his teachers didn't like that he asked so many questions that they couldn't answer. When he became a professor, he encouraged his students to ask questions and was never upsset if he didn't know the answer. He just told them he didn't know.

Karen Arlettaz Zemek, author of "My Funny Dad, Harry"

I love this book it gave me alot of great information, I did'nt have to go to other sources to get information about his life. I'm doing a report on his life for a school project. I'm going to dress like he did and memorize a speech I'm going to write and then give it in front of my school and all the parents of our school.

Ordinary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein
By: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Retold by: S.Delgado
Per.3

The book talks about Alberts life, his ideas and his accomplishments. It talked about from his childhood to his death. Albert was born in March 14, 1879 and died in April 18, 1955. he lived with his family along with his two siblings. When Albert was a child the first thing that he saw that changed his life was a compass. He wondered how the compass always go north when he goes to a different direction. Albert loved science and mathematics when ever he went to school. After years past Albert looked up books and writing eqautions that could make whatever Albert thinks it is possible. when he thought up of ideas and eqautions, He became the worlds famous scientist.

I liked how they talked about what his eqautions mean, what were his eqautions, what did E=mc2 mean, and what is the theory of relativity. The Theory of Relativity is the motion at a constant speed. E=mc2 means energy equals mass of energy times speed of light two times.

What I disliked about the book was that it does not tell when he created his inventions or when did he enroll in his schools, for example it will tell when did he thought up of the E=mc2 or when did he enroll in the university.

My favorite part of the book was one of Alberts ideas saying that if your toy car is going at 2 mph and then put the toy car while running on a 100 mph train and the car would be going 102 mph. If you place a light that goes 186,282 mps on a train, the light still travels the same mps, the speed never changes.

I bought this for my 11, almost 2 year old brother. He said he wanted a book about Einstein, and after looking at a few of them, I felt that this one was appropriate for his age/reading level. It's an easy read, but very informative. This kid is obsessed with video games, and actually enjoyed this enough to sit down and read it. I'm happy I got him this. :)

Excellent insight into life of a great mind! Got in conisderable expectation timeline and the book is in great condition. Content is very good..

Ordinary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein
By: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Retold by: S.Delgado
Per.3

The book talks about Alberts life, his ideas and his accomplishments. It talked about from his childhood to his death. Albert was born in March 14, 1879 and died in April 18, 1955. he lived with his family along with his two siblings. When Albert was a child the first thing that he saw that changed his life was a compass. He wondered how the compass always go north when he goes to a different direction. Albert loved science and mathematics when ever he went to school. After years past Albert looked up books and writing eqautions that could make whatever Albert thinks it is possible. when he thought up of ideas and eqautions, He became the worlds famous scientist.

I liked how they talked about what his eqautions mean, what were his eqautions, what did E=mc2 mean, and what is the theory of relativity. The Theory of Relativity is the motion at a constant speed. E=mc2 means energy equals mass of energy times speed of light two times.

What I disliked about the book was that it does not tell when he created his inventions or when did he enroll in his schools, for example it will tell when did he thought up of the E=mc2 or when did he enroll in the university.

My favorite part of the book was one of Alberts ideas saying that if your toy car is going at 2 mph and then put the toy car while running on a 100 mph train and the car would be going 102 mph. If you place a light that goes 186,282 mps on a train, the light still travels the same mps, the speed never changes.

Ordinary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein
By: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Retold by: S.Delgado
Per.3

The book talks about Alberts life, his ideas and his accomplishments. It talked about from his childhood to his death. Albert was born in March 14, 1879 and died in April 18, 1955. he lived with his family along with his two siblings. When Albert was a child the first thing that he saw that changed his life was a compass. He wondered how the compass always go north when he goes to a different direction. Albert loved science and mathematics when ever he went to school. After years past Albert looked up books and writing eqautions that could make whatever Albert thinks it is possible. when he thought up of ideas and eqautions, He became the worlds famous scientist.

I liked how they talked about what his eqautions mean, what were his eqautions, what did E=mc2 mean, and what is the theory of relativity. The Theory of Relativity is the motion at a constant speed. E=mc2 means energy equals mass of energy times speed of light two times.

What I disliked about the book was that it does not tell when he created his inventions or when did he enroll in his schools, for example it will tell when did he thought up of the E=mc2 or when did he enroll in the university.

My favorite part of the book was one of Alberts ideas saying that if your toy car is going at 2 mph and then put the toy car while running on a 100 mph train and the car would be going 102 mph. If you place a light that goes 186,282 mps on a train, the light still travels the same mps, the speed never changes.

My son had checked this book out from school and lost it. I needed a replacement quick.

Thank you!

Laura Petersen