When he was born in 1879, Albert was a peculiarly fat baby with an
unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister,
frustrated his teachers, and had few friends. But Albert's strange
childhood also included his brilliant capacity for puzzles and problem
solving: the mystery of a compass's swirling needle, the intricacies of
Mozart's music, the secrets of geometry--set his mind spinning with
ideas. In fact, Albert Einstein's ideas were destined to change the way
we know and understand the world and our place in the universe.
In spare, precise text filled with graceful detail and accompanied by
sometimes humorous, sometimes lonely portraits, Don Brown introduces us
to the less than magnificent beginnings of an odd boy out. The result is
a tender rendering of the adventures of growing up for one of the most
important thinkers of the twentieth century.