Odd Boy Out

ODD BOY OUT
By Don Brown
Houghton Mifflin, 2004

Category: Picture Book Biography

I was in search of a little picture book biography inspiration this week, and ODD BOY OUT delivered.

In his brief portrayal of Albert Einstein’s life—from “too fat” babyhood to “famous” adulthood—Don Brown shares the iffy and spiffy bits of young Einstein’s life: the childhood tantrums, the dull-witted response to Greek and Latin, the isolation, the mathematical genius, and the astounding insights that changed our world forever.

All this in 1178 words and 22 images.

Inspiration, indeed.