She explains how intently he read about numbers and concepts before he “helped prove that everything in the world is made of atoms.” Radunsky playfully switches to a primitive Seurat-pointillist style for these pages, as if the little dots were the atoms that form everything. Berne discusses both Einstein’s style (comfortable clothes, no socks, long wild hair) and his tremendous substance. It was the biggest, most exciting thought Albert had ever had.” The ever-inventive illustrator Vladimir Radunsky - inspired to take liberties with the natural laws that Einstein pondered - presents Albert riding serenely, hands free, upward on a sunbeam. he was racing through space on a beam of light. When a young Einstein notices the sunlight as he bicycles in the countryside, he wonders, “What would it be like to ride one of those beams? And in his mind, right then and there. Berne’s engaging text follows Albert through his childhood, administrative day job and eventual worldwide acclaim, but her emphasis is on his exhilarating contemplations of the universe. That’s where Jennifer Berne’s new picture-book biography begins, and this baby Einstein positively glows, radiating love and intelligence. Einstein has long been the go-to guy when you think “genius,” but he was once simply the adored baby of doting parents.
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