Age-appropriate ~ Detailed ~ Sweet

tl:dr: Smart lady uses machines and math.

This book is written at a lower level than some of the other Sanchez Vegara books, like for a younger audience. As a parent, finding good non-fiction for young children can be challenging. This would be a great book to read out loud to young kids or for a kid learning to read. As always for this series, the images are wonderful. Yamamoto uses a multi-media style, with abstracted forms, that is at once appealing and easy to access. I love the little details like a white cat running through a computer-like machines.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This series is always a joy to read, it’s a really nice introduction to well known people for little children. Of course the plot is always a little bit fast but that’s to be expected and it’s totally understandable.
I've always been fascinated by Ada Lovelace, someone who we must be truly thankful for. She basically was the first computer programmer in history and her works were useful to create what we today call a computer. What an interesting mind and inspiring person that she was. This is a great introduction for children so that they can learn about the early stages of the computer.

I didn't realize there were two versions of this book. This is the board book, which appears to be a little bit shorter. I don't know if there are any other differences.

The book tells the basic story of Ada Lovelace, although I think it might be a little too basic. I highly doubt that, when she met Charles Babbage, they walked around saying "1+2=3" and "3+1=4" like they were having a stimulating conversation. I'm also doubtful of the assertion that the code Ada came up with for Babbage's calculator "is the language computers use today".

The pictures here are okay, but kind of rough and juvenile. I'm guessing that each book in this series has a different illustrator. The illustrations here just didn't impress me that much.

I wouldn't mind having a look at the longer version of the book to see if there's anything I missed. I suppose this is okay for a board book, but for anyone a little bit older, it's probably going to seem simplistic and incomplete.

This is a cute, extremely simplified life of Ada Lovelace for very young children. I think that it (like many in this series) would be a nice introduction to Lovelace for pre-readers.