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Steve Jobs

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This a short and sweet biography of Steve Jobs. The story covered his life from birth until the success of Apple. I liked that the illustrations used the infamous black shirt from childhood through adulthood.. The only "bad" thing about this book is that Steve and high-school aged Woz looked like girls. I honestly thought steve was in mom in the beginning since it was a picture of steve & his dad. However, I don't thinknits a big enough deal to knock a star off the rating.

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Another neat book in this series! An inspirational brief biography about visionary and Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs. I loved learning about his life and interests. I wanted some more details about him as information was a little scant and disjointed. Perfect for children of all ages.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC.

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I want to start by saying
I love this series!
However this one has one star drop because I'm not sure how influenciar can be for children the idea that education could be dropped.
I think education is key to later succeed in a career.
Obviously he weighted the education with work experience which also is key so it win again since doing something you love is also what kids should look for.
Thanks for the copy.

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Steve Jobs is the newest to be spotlighted in this latest edition of the Little People, BIG DREAMS series by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara. This series is such a delight and the perfect way to educate not just kids but everyone about historic and cultural icons.

Jobs was a businessman, technological entrepreneur and, innovator. This book portrays Jobs from getting adopted, to designing an at-home computer with Steve Wozniak and the formation of Apple.

Aura Lewis illustrates this installment and does an amazing job. Aura's art style was so captivating and her art definitely further helped tell Jobs' story. This installment did a great job of educating me about a historical figure who I had never heard of before this book. I love collecting these books and am so thrilled to add this one to the rest of my collection.

I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

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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. This book here's about Steve Jobs, a man everyone's familiar with. Apple products are all around us and we may have one or more in our homes too. He definitely changed the game in his field and this book is a short and nice introduction to how he got to have his big company.

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Steve Jobs by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara is another stellar addition to the Little People, BIG DREAMS series. This time around, the spotlight is on Steve Jobs, the visionary behind the personal computer and the Apple brand.

When Steve was a young boy, he found school to be boring and instead invested his time and energy into the emerging technology of computers, and worked with his friend Woz (Steve Wozniak) to see his vision for a home computer come to fruition.

What I love about this wonderful series is that each individual profiled reinforces the validity of childhood dreams, and the endless possibilities contained therein. Another wonderful book to add to any child's home library.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group - Frances Lincoln Children's Books for the opportunity to read this ARC.

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The illustrations in this book worked really well with the story, and I thought this was one of the better titles in terms of simplifying someone's life story without making it overly generic.

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Oddly, this book – in digital form at least – is available on a number of platforms everyone can switch between, and not only the one system. And it's a lot cheaper as a result. Anyway, it is a good primer to the life of Steve Jobs, in this series' usual 'here's-someone-to-look-up-to' style. Normally there are flaws in these, with the story or the life behind it or the presentation getting in the way and making a problem, but not with this volume. I had cared so little for him I didn't know he was adopted at birth, but the salient facts – a hard-working, hard-designing computer company getting to rule the world with a dash of Indian philosophy on the side – are all here, and presented well. It successfully takes the young reader on the path from computers being the size of basketball bleachers to a ping-pong ball, and only the adult cynic would think this too pro-Apple.

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