Thursday, March 28, 2019

Just Like Rube Goldberg by Sarah Aronson - ADVISABLE

Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines by Sarah Aronson, illustrated by Robert Neubecker. PICTURE BOOK/NON FICTION. Beach Lane Books (Simon and Schuster), 2019. $18. 9781481476683

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL - ADVISABLE 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE 

Rube Goldberg always wanted to draw, but his german immigrant father insisted that Rube get a college education, so Rube became an engineer. But after a few years of crawling through mines and drawing pipe systems, Rube moved to New York and got a job with a newspaper as a cartoonist, becoming famous for is drawings of outlandish inventions for doing simple things the hard way. 

Sara Aronson's simply told biography is carried beautifully through Robert Neubecker's illustrations. Keeping with Goldberg's style, we see Rubes' life as well as fun examples of his machines. I really love these picture book biographies which are so accessible for a wide audience. Includes a more thorough biography as well as source material. Adding this to my middle school biography collection today.

Lisa Librarian

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