Who Was Steve Jobs? Paperback – Illustrated, March 29, 2012

This series is wonderful, my 8 yo son used this for a biography book report and thoroughly enjoyed the book. He wished there were a few more details about Steve, but I think the authors struck a good balance. I had read the Steve Jobs autobiography, by Walter Isaacson, so I was able to fill in a few things for him, and he was quite impressed that his book was so much shorter than the one I had read. It is a great introduction to the man behind Apple, particularly when so many children use Apple products.

My grandson had a research paper to do on Steve Jobs. This book was a real help and gave a lot of back ground information in a simple and straightforward manner. He was able to get a lot of basic information here and then go to other places if he needed to expand on the basic information. Very well done for an elementary school child.

I liked to read this e book. It was easy to understand the life of one of the most important character in the computer and internet era. I was very impressed with the reading. It was amazing for me to know a little closer about Steve Jobs life.I recommend this e book to everybody who wants to know a little more about this icon man. For children it's OK.I think it could be longer because it was very interesting and I wanted to read more.

Great little book. We buy lots of Who Was books and use them for homeschool enrichment. Short chapters, larger font, and lots of pictures make these books an easy read. This was a great addition to our collection.

My 11 year old daughter loves this book. She also likes the others in the series, but she really loves this one. Its cool that she understands the background behind all the Apple devices she is using. She really embraced the idea that Steve Jobs did not invent any of the technologies, he just made them practical, and more importantly, fun to use. She said she thought she knew a lot about Jobs before reading the book, but she really didn't know much at all. She was amazed in the amount of interesting facts about his life. She talked about Jobs for about 3 days straight after reading it.

This book was amazing! It was short and included many details about Steve Jobs. What surprised me the most was the fact that he was so poor and then became a billionaire. "Steve couldn't pay for college". "Steve Jobs was a success- a big success. He wasn't a millionaire anymore. He was a billionaire." Steve Jobs has showed me that it doesn't matter where you come from, you can be a success. That a poor child can go from having no money to becoming one of the richest and youngest men alive.

Between this book and a documentary on YouTube-actually his dissertation to Stanford on YouTube were great information for a report for my 12-year-old daughter.I really appreciated learning about his tenacity to work for what he believed in.I don't know all the closed-door stuff about him of course or his real life, but it seems seems was really an amazing person when it came to work anyways.Though it seemed he may of been difficult to work with at times it also seems he really had a knack for seeing the talent and beauty in a lot of different people and objects.It also opened the discussion with my daughter about the fragility of life, and no matter how much money you have....we have to really think about the things that are worth living for...and loving for.

Extremely helpful and easy book for my 1st grade son. We bought this book for him for a biography project and he did great; we were there to help him with words he did t know. He really enjoy this book