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Gr 2–6—The name Einstein is synonymous with genius, but what does that mean to a child? Einstein himself would only admit to being "very, very curious." Berne's picture book offers readers few biographical details, focusing instead on the physicist's intellect through the concepts that puzzled and excited him. He was late to start speaking and not particularly verbal-until he received a compass. As the author explains, "Suddenly he knew there were mysteries in the world-hidden and silent, unknown and unseen." And suddenly, too, he was bursting with questi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The title of this book refers to the mental picture young Albert Einstein conjured one day while biking through the countryside; he looked at the sunbeams "speeding from the sun to the Earth" and suddenly imagined he was "racing through space on a beam of light." Berne and Radunsky -- in a gorgeous piece of bookmaking -- use this "biggest, most exciting thought Albert had ever had" as the focal point for their homage to the great physicist. As a boy, young Einstein "hardly said a word at all." But he "looked and wondered" at the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More