Biographies
I've been reading biographies this week. I got a few new ones in the media center and found a few more in the Ebook section of my local library (free books! Delivered to my ipad! What a deal!). The first one is called "On a Beam of Light" by Jennifer Berne is a picture book biography of Albert Einstein. The pictures are exuberant and kind of primitive (in a good way) and it makes the life of Albert Einstein accessible to little kids (and bigger kids who might have thought that Albert Einstein was too smart for them to read about). It explains some of Einstein's theories in very simple terms but it also talks about his persistence and his questioning attitude as well as his love of reading that took him to the places he wanted to go. The second biography I read was about Jane Goodall. It's called "The Watcher: Jane Goodall's life with the chimps" by Jeanette Winter. I'm a big fan of Jane Goodall, having heard her speak at a loca...