Caution: if you are looking for something different or new on Steve Jobs in this book, you are going to be disappointed. Considering the spate of books on Jobs ever since the demise of the iconic founder of Apple in 2011, this is a rather late entrant. However, coming from Patricia Lakin, who has written several books for children, this biography is for older children, making it quite simple and easy to read.
Not the usual Steve
<p>Steve Job worked in very simple and easy way for this bokk. Students from middle school found it interesting as the story depicts the life of a boy from his adoption to demise.</p>
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It gives a full essence of Steve Jobs’ life and his great contributions to the world of technology and Apple. Inc. For middle-school children this is a book that will make reading easy for them with a sequential overview of Jobs’s life, from his adoption to demise.
On the way it details about his loving and supportive parents, boredom with traditional education, passionate interests, consuming drive, and demanding demeanour, which gives a rounded account of one of the greatest innovators of our times.
Lakin has gone into details and presents this book with quotes and information culled from news articles, speeches, and books, including the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
She follows Jobs’ life along a linear trajectory, which is easy for youngsters to follow and shares accounts of Jobs’ unkempt appearance in the 1970s, when he skipped showers or put his bare feet up on the table at a business meeting.
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A big letdown is the lack of pictures in the book, which could have ignited more interest in reading this book for teenagers and adults alike.