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Krull, Kathleen

The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth

32 pp. | Knopf | September, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-84561-1 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-375-94651-8 $19.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Greg Couch. Krull asks her audience to imagine life in 1906 (the year of Farnsworth's birth): "No refrigerators...few phones...And there was no television." She continues in this engaging, easygoing tone as she describes Farnsworth's early life. The book ends with Philo, age twenty-two, reading an article about his "revolutionary light machine." Couch's muted mixed-media illustrations are illuminated with splashes of light. Reading list, websites. Bib.
Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2009

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