(4) K-3 Zoom In on Technology Pioneers series. These early-reader biographies give the most general facts about each figure's early life, career accomplishments, and legacy. Choppy texts are adequately illustrated with archival and stock photos on cleanly designed pages. Among the modern-day (male) tech entrepreneurs profiled, the volumes on nineteenth-century chemist and physicist Curie and early-twentieth-century nuclear physicist Wu feel pro forma; contemporary female technology pioneers are out there. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Zoom In on Technology Pioneers titles: Bill Gates, Chien-Shiung Wu, Jeff Bezos, Jerry Yang, Marie Curie, Steve Jobs.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) K-3 Zoom In on Technology Pioneers series. These early-reader biographies give the most general facts about each figure's early life, career accomplishments, and legacy. Choppy texts are adequately illustrated with archival and stock photos on cleanly designed pages. Among the modern-day (male) tech entrepreneurs profiled, the volumes on nineteenth-century chemist and physicist Curie and early-twentieth-century nuclear physicist Wu feel pro forma; contemporary female technology pioneers are out there. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Zoom In on Technology Pioneers titles: Bill Gates, Chien-Shiung Wu, Jeff Bezos, Jerry Yang, Marie Curie, Steve Jobs.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) K-3 Zoom In on Technology Pioneers series. These early-reader biographies give the most general facts about each figure's early life, career accomplishments, and legacy. Choppy texts are adequately illustrated with archival and stock photos on cleanly designed pages. Among the modern-day (male) tech entrepreneurs profiled, the volumes on nineteenth-century chemist and physicist Curie and early-twentieth-century nuclear physicist Wu feel pro forma; contemporary female technology pioneers are out there. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Zoom In on Technology Pioneers titles: Bill Gates, Chien-Shiung Wu, Jeff Bezos, Jerry Yang, Marie Curie, Steve Jobs.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) K-3 Zoom In on Technology Pioneers series. These early-reader biographies give the most general facts about each figure's early life, career accomplishments, and legacy. Choppy texts are adequately illustrated with archival and stock photos on cleanly designed pages. Among the modern-day (male) tech entrepreneurs profiled, the volumes on nineteenth-century chemist and physicist Curie and early-twentieth-century nuclear physicist Wu feel pro forma; contemporary female technology pioneers are out there. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Zoom In on Technology Pioneers titles: Bill Gates, Chien-Shiung Wu, Jeff Bezos, Jerry Yang, Marie Curie, Steve Jobs.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) K-3 Zoom In on Technology Pioneers series. These early-reader biographies give the most general facts about each figure's early life, career accomplishments, and legacy. Choppy texts are adequately illustrated with archival and stock photos on cleanly designed pages. Among the modern-day (male) tech entrepreneurs profiled, the volumes on nineteenth-century chemist and physicist Curie and early-twentieth-century nuclear physicist Wu feel pro forma; contemporary female technology pioneers are out there. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Zoom In on Technology Pioneers titles: Bill Gates, Chien-Shiung Wu, Jeff Bezos, Jerry Yang, Marie Curie, Steve Jobs.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) K-3 Zoom In on Technology Pioneers series. These early-reader biographies give the most general facts about each figure's early life, career accomplishments, and legacy. Choppy texts are adequately illustrated with archival and stock photos on cleanly designed pages. Among the modern-day (male) tech entrepreneurs profiled, the volumes on nineteenth-century chemist and physicist Curie and early-twentieth-century nuclear physicist Wu feel pro forma; contemporary female technology pioneers are out there. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Zoom In on Technology Pioneers titles: Bill Gates, Chien-Shiung Wu, Jeff Bezos, Jerry Yang, Marie Curie, Steve Jobs.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(3) YA Technology Pioneers series. Emphasizing the details of their business successes rather than their personal lives, these profiles provide young readers with inspirational, true stories of how Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos developed their start-up technology ventures into huge and profitable companies whose products and services permeate our lives. Color photos and sidebars support the workmanlike prose. Reading list, timeline. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Technology Pioneers titles: Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon.com.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(3) YA Technology Pioneers series. Emphasizing the details of their business successes rather than their personal lives, these profiles provide young readers with inspirational, true stories of how Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos developed their start-up technology ventures into huge and profitable companies whose products and services permeate our lives. Color photos and sidebars support the workmanlike prose. Reading list, timeline. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Technology Pioneers titles: Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon.com.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) YA Technology Pioneers series. This book covers familiar territory: the partnership of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, early successes and failures, Jobs's genius and perfectionism, and the resurgence of Apple after launching the iPod and iPad. The blandly written text is accompanied by lots of photos of Jobs and Apple products. Sidebars offer additional information. Reading list, timeline. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee

(3) YA Technology Pioneers series. Emphasizing the details of their business successes rather than their personal lives, these profiles provide young readers with inspirational, true stories of how Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos developed their start-up technology ventures into huge and profitable companies whose products and services permeate our lives. Color photos and sidebars support the workmanlike prose. Reading list, timeline. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Technology Pioneers titles: Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon.com.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(3) YA Technology Pioneers series. Each book begins with an overview of the title company's main product, then backtracks to provide a well-narrated history of its conception and development. Key figures (e.g., Craig Newmark of Craigslist, Pierre Omidyar of eBay) are profiled in a way that makes clear their creativity, entrepreneurship, and inextricable links to their respective organizations. Useful photographs are included. Timeline. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Technology Pioneers titles: Nintendo, Craigslist, eBay, and Google.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(3) YA Technology Pioneers series. Each book begins with an overview of the title company's main product, then backtracks to provide a well-narrated history of its conception and development. Key figures (e.g., Craig Newmark of Craigslist, Pierre Omidyar of eBay) are profiled in a way that makes clear their creativity, entrepreneurship, and inextricable links to their respective organizations. Useful photographs are included. Timeline. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Technology Pioneers titles: Nintendo, Craigslist, eBay, and Google.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(3) YA Technology Pioneers series. Each book begins with an overview of the title company's main product, then backtracks to provide a well-narrated history of its conception and development. Key figures (e.g., Craig Newmark of Craigslist, Pierre Omidyar of eBay) are profiled in a way that makes clear their creativity, entrepreneurship, and inextricable links to their respective organizations. Useful photographs are included. Timeline. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Technology Pioneers titles: Nintendo, Craigslist, eBay, and Google.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(3) YA Technology Pioneers series. Each book begins with an overview of the title company's main product, then backtracks to provide a well-narrated history of its conception and development. Key figures (e.g., Craig Newmark of Craigslist, Pierre Omidyar of eBay) are profiled in a way that makes clear their creativity, entrepreneurship, and inextricable links to their respective organizations. Useful photographs are included. Timeline. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Technology Pioneers titles: Nintendo, Craigslist, eBay, and Google.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian