I, Galileo

Acclaimed author-illustrator Bonnie Christensen adopts the voice of Galileo and lets him tell his own tale in this outstanding picture book biography. The first person narration gives this book a friendly personal feel that makes Galileos remarkable achievements and ideas completely accessible to young readers. And Christensens artwork glows with the light of the stars he studied. Galileos contributions were so numerousthe telescope! the microscope!and his ideas so world-changingthe sun-centric solar system!that Albert Einstein called him "the father of modern science." But in his own time he was branded a heretic and imprisoned in his home. He was a man who insisted on his right to pursue the truth no matter what the costmaking his life as interesting and instructive as his ideas.