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Gr 1–3—This latest picture book biography of Ada Lovelace is sure to captive a variety of readers. For visual learners, the illustrations (watercolors cut, arranged, and then photographed) lend the story a rhythmic movement that allows readers to better imagine the chugging of Lovelace's Analytical Engine. The paper-doll appearance of the cast of characters evokes a sense of play around an otherwise dense subject. The text's lilting quality wi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Whisked away as a newborn by Anne Milbanke, her strait-laced mathematician mother, Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) never knew her father, the impetuous Romantic poet Lord Byron. Determined to suppress Ada's imagination (and any other of Byron's "reckless" traits), Milbanke banned poetry, urging her daughter to explore numbers instead. Yet Ada still "[found] her own sort of poetical expression…through math!" Inspired by the Industrial Revolution's new steam-powered machinery, young Ada envisioned a fanciful contraption: a flying mechanical horse. A serious ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Daughter of a strait-laced mathematician mother and impetuous Romantic poet father (Lord Byron, whom she never knew), Ada "[found] her own sort ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More