Albie Newton by Ester Garay, Josh Funk
Published by Sterling on May 1, 2018
ISBN: 1454922583
Pages: 26
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Albie Newton has a very specific and important audience: siblings, classmates and parents of children with asynchronous development and it’s definitely time we have a book like this. For those living and learning with gifted children there will be an instant recognition of the difficulties involved in the uneven levels of maturity. I love that the book addresses how frustrating it can be for classmates to experience this but there’s no judgement involved and they all realize that he’s working toward something amazing. And even if it doesn’t resonate on the development level, kids will enjoy watching Albie misbehave and create machines at the same time.

Reviewed by Sarah Maciejewski, Patten Free Library, Bath