This is a marvelous book that students and families will enjoy. The "bite size" format is great for sharing fun and interesting bits of history with fellow students or with parents/siblings/friends. I highly recommend this book and this series!

Bright and colourfully presented, this "in 30 seconds" book about the brilliant man, Leonardo Da Vinci is targeted at middle-grade readers but accessible by older students as well. It is well laid out and leaves information easily found. Illustrations are meaningful and show the works of the great man.
Overall, this is a pleasant read, that adds to information and one I would happily put in my youngster's library.

It takes a little more than 30 seconds to read each page, but that is because it is full of info bits, and then longer passages about those bits. I think they did a good job breaking things down into subjects such as art, science, etc. I think kids would find this very helpful. I just wished they used more real pictures instead of mainly illustrations.

I have a love/hate relationship with this book. As an educator, I struggle with the lack of sustained attention in my students. My sixth graders find TED Talks too long. I blame Vine. Because of this we contribute to this lack of focus by presenting them with shorter videos.

This book is useful for this population because it offers brief sections each detailing a different aspect of DaVinci's life and work and each concluding with a 3-second summary.

I thought this was a very well written book and it definitely deserves a place in my classroom library. I enjoyed the graphics that went along with the text and thought that kids would enjoy them too. I also like that they included a section with the vocabulary that might not be familiar to kids.

I will say that I timed myself reading one of the pages and it took me about 40 sec to read it. I'm a pretty fast reader so I don't think that kids, who this book is intended for, could read it in 30 sec.

I actually really loved this book, enough so that I showed my husband and even he was intrigued and said we needed to go buy it.

This is such a clever way to teach children about people in history, not only are the pages quick to read there are fun things to try. I loved the glossary provided before each section so that definitions to keywords are provided. Highly recommend!

Great for tweens who are just learning how to use the non-fiction and biography sections. It gives easy, fun and straightforward information. It is set up in a way that is easy to use and the captions are full of useful information.

Having seen several other books in this ... in 30 Seconds series in my reviewing career, it was no surprise to me to find a book heavy on pictorial element as well as serious, educational matter. The concept of the time limit for every page is obviously spurious, but the depth of detail, and educational value of these books, are really quite high, making them easy to recommend - and this entrant, even if it only looks at one man is no exception - but then, da Vinci was a lot more than just one man. I've yet to meet with one of these books that isn't firmly appropriate for a school library, or for the shelves of the young enthusiast, and this is one of the best.

This is a pretty cool book with little sound bites of everything that we know about Leonardo da Vinci, from what he understood about science, how he was a cartographer (which I didn't know), and how he never really felt a work was done, which is why the Mona Lisa is in France, rather than Italy, because he had it with him when he died, and he died in France.

Whew. So much to learn, and in only 90 pages. Each double page spread have a three second sum up, plus three paragraphs that are supposed to take 30 seconds to read, which talk about some aspect of Leonardo De Vinci's life.

Very cool way to introduce young audiences to an amazing man.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

This is a lot of fun. I like the 3-way structuring of the information.