Odd Boy Out: young Albert Einstein by Don Brown, ill. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

ISBN: 0618492984

Media: pen and ink, watercolor and digital rendering

This is the story of Albert Einstein.  As a young boy he would throw tantrums and was often considered odd as he did not play sports and neglected the classes he found to be boring.  His curiosity and passion for mathematics and physics led him to develop his equation for joining matter and energy, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (concerning the nature of light) and the Special Theory of Relativity. 

 

Literary Devices: personification

Rating: 5Q/5P

Wess Garcia, August 2009