ReadItDaddy's Book of the Week - Week Ending 17th July 2020: "Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity: Words that Changed the World" by Carl Wilkinson and James Weston Lewis (Laurence King Publishing)

Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow! You may have a bit of a wait on your hands to get hold of a copy of "Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity: Words that Changed the World" by Carl Wilkinson and James Weston Lewis, but trust us on this one, it will be well worth the wait.

Albert Einstein, genius theoretical scientist, may not be the easiest person in the world to decode for kids, yet here in this massive book (and boy, do we ever love a massive science book), Carl and James present his work in a fantastic and easily digestible way - without removing the importance of his theories, and without watering down Einstein's amazing body of work.

The book breaks each of Einstein's various theories down into categories, dealing with time and space, the formation of our universe, and his academic papers and presents each section in an eye-catching and memorable way.

The book also manages to capture a flavour of Einstein's rather eccentric and quirky character (after all, what's the point in being a genius if you can't be a little bit 'strange' with it, right?) - Kids will absolutely eat up all the details and anecdotes that are included amongst the more science-ey stuff.

Let's take a look inside - how stunning is this?



We've seen many attempts to engage young scientists with often quite complex subjects but this is easily one of the best introductory science books we've ever seen - in fact it's almost unfair to describe it as introductory, just because it's fairly illustration heavy - the text in here will be useful for reference material for a huge age range, and this book is destined to become a real 'keeper' for families (like us) that are obsessed with the magic of science, and those folk who laid the foundations of what we know about our world, our universe and ourselves.

Sum this book up in a sentence: Without a doubt, one of the best science books we've seen in ten years of book blogging, a truly stunning tome detailing the life and work of one of the 20th Century's unparalleled scientific geniuses.

"Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity" by Carl Wilkinson and James Weston Lewis is out on 14th September 2020 - Published by Laurence King Publishing (kindly supplied for review).