The book I read was called Children who changed the world. The book is about famous people such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, however, unlike many other biography books, this book specifically talks about their childhood. This book talks about seven famous people including: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison.
The book is split up into seven parts. Each section talks about the childhood of one of these people starting from their birth up until they turn around 20. The chapters show how actions and events in the person’s childhood contributed to their success and fame.
For example, Bill Gates, he grew up in a time were computers like the ones today were nonexistent, but computers called Teletypes existed. Teletypes worked when someone typed into the computer a command and the computer would execute that command. Unlike computers today where anyone can pick one up and know how to use it, the Teletypes needed knowledge of computer coding language such as “BASIC” to operate the computers. Bill Gates and a few of his friends in his middle school were fascinated by these computers and learned “BASIC” coding language and used it to operate them. Bill Gates love for computers in the past led him to create the well known “Microsoft” company dedicated to creating compute
I read this book because my mom thought I would like it. I have always been interested in successful people like Bill Gates and their life. So she thought it would be good for me to read about these people when they were kids way before they got famous.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about how people such as Bill Gates came to be.