ODD BOY OUT: Young Albert Einstein

Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 1st Edition 11th Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Don Brown color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2004 Houghton Mifflin large paperback, first paperback edition, 11th printing. A note about the color: the true book is a light tan with Maroon lettering. For some reason the front cover seems to scan out as light maroon. Very odd. Truer color on the back cover panel. CONTENT: 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.