Odd Boy Out : Young Albert Einstein

Author(s): Don Brown

3-5 yrs Picture Books (Paperback)

When he was born, Albert was a peculiar, fat baby with an unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister, bothered his teachers, and didn t have many friends. But in the midst of all of this, Albert was fascinated with solving puzzles and fixing scientific problems. The ideas Albert Einstein came up with during his childhood as an odd boy out were destined to change the way we know and understand the world around us . . ."


Product Information

Don Brown is the award-winning author and illustrator of many picture book biographies. He has been widely praised for his resonant storytelling and his delicate watercolor paintings that evoke the excitement, humor, pain, and joy of lives lived with passion. School Library Journal has called him "a current pacesetter who has put the finishing touches on the standards for storyographies." He lives in New York with his family.

General Fields

  • : 9780547014357
  • : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
  • : Harcourt Children's Books
  • : 0.163293
  • : 01 June 2008
  • : 249mm X 249mm X 5mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Don Brown
  • : Paperback
  • : 2008
  • : English
  • : 530/.092 B
  • : 32
  • : colour illustrations