  | Erno Rubik and his magic cube (with TX Bluebonnet Logo) Author: Aradhya, Kerry | |
| Price: $23.28 | ||
Summary:
This first picture book biography of Erno Rubik, creator of the Rubik's Cube, reveals the obsession, imagination, and engineering process behind the creation of a bestselling puzzle that will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2024.
| Illustrator: | Kramer, Kara |
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: LG Reading Level: 3.80 Points: .5 Quiz: 553801 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (03/15/24)
Booklist (04/01/24)
The Hornbook (+) (00/07/24)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 04/01/2024 Though not big on biographical details, this tribute to the inventor of a puzzle with worldwide sales of more than 450 million does capture a strong sense of how much hard work he put into its conception and construction. Even as a child in Budapest, Ernö loved playing with puzzles, mechanical gadgets, and geometric shapes. Kramer’s illustrations reflect this fascination by incorporating lots of small squares, grids, cubes, and tessellated patterns into scenes of the solitary child growing into a solitary, abstracted young man pursuing his idea through false starts and multiple failures on the way to the successful 1974 widget he called a Magic Cube (“Buvös Kocka”). The illustrator does slip a photo of Rubik into a final painted gathering of young twisters and turners, and Aradhya closes with brief additional comments about his life, along with fascinating numerical facts about the Rubik's Cube itself and its subsequent history. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
