Scientists have made discoveries that change our world, but they were also real people who irritated their neighbors and had favorite foods. The book details lives of scientists Zhang Heng, Ibn Sina, Galileo, Isaac Netwon, William and Caroline Herschel, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Ivan Pavlov, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Barbara McClintock, Grace Murray Hopper, Rachel Carson, Chien-Shiung Wu, James D. Watson and Francis Crick, and Jane Goodall. In each short biography, it shows an illustration of the scientist, details what contributions that scientist made to the world, and interesting things about them that will interest readers and remind them that scientists are real people too.

This is an excellent resource to introduce children to the accomplishments of several scientists while also showing how human they were. It talks about amusing thing like how Galileo was lectured by the Roman Inquisition for disrespecting his mother and how Albert Einstein collected joke books. It includes several minorities, with 7 biographies being about women and 5 of the scientists were not Caucasian. Some of the scientists are well-known, but Krull also includes ancient scientists that aren’t as famous. The details about their accomplishments and the emphasis on what these men and women were like as people will help children be interested in scientists in ways they might not have been before. ( )

This whimsically illustrated informational text contains accessible and brief profiles of 20 scientists from diverse fields of study and many regions of the world.

This book shows the different scientists that have lived among the years and the different things they discovered and the mistakes they made. The book is broken up into chapters with each chapter going into one scientists and their life. It allows the students to see into their lives and how they discovered things and were wrong about a lot of things. It allows students to see that even the well-known famous scientists still made mistakes and that no one is perfect. I would use this in having students pick a scientists and learn about them. Then they would do something that represented that scientist. For example, replicate an experiment they did and see if their are changes they could make to make it better. It will allow for an hands on experience allowing for the most learning to occur. ( )

Fun book, passing on some facts and some fables about famous scientists. Lively and entertaining. The illustrations are clever and accomplished. The heads of the scientists are much enlarged, while their diminutive bodies are surrounded by the symbology of their scientific accomplishments and other interests. ( )

This is a great book if you're looking for a bit of different take on famous scientists. It shows their humanity, flaws and all. ( )