Leonardo Da Vinci: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #10: Monday with a Mad Genius

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This is an excellent book about the life of Leonardo da Vinci. It gave information about his early years that was unknown to most people and it was an up lifting book.

//Leonardo da Vinci// is the non-fiction companion guide to //Monday with a Mad Genius//--an adventure by Jack and Annie involving Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest Renaissance men. This guide contains the facts behind the events in the //Monday with a Mad Genius//, including the explanation of why Leonardo freed birds from their cages, what really happened with the fresco in Palazzo Vecchio, and why his writings are inverted. As a guide, this volume is very useful to a learner who is just starting to learn about things by himself. The information is well-organized (the table of contents can always help get one back on track, and the index is a wonderful memory jogger), the language is easy to understand and the illustrations and pictures do an effective job of making the text come alive. If the reader wants more, the guide is also very good in suggesting other things to do, or other books to read to get more information.

These companion books are very well written. This one was his favorite, I think because it has a more personal and biographical side to it. They don't create the same excitement level as the fiction stories but the history lessons are encompassing enough that our son has been able to teach us a few things about Italy, da Vinci, and life in his time. Now our son wants to visit Venice to see where he lived, this raising of curiosity is enough for me to recommend the book. He also read through cover to cover, which can be tough for six year olds when it comes to non-fiction (fiction tends to flow better, so he always reads those straight through). The author has really hit on a winning formula for making book-learning fun for younger children.