Written and Illustrated by Gene Barretta
Leonardo da Vinci studied, explored, created, invented, and more! This book shares inventions like the parachute (Jean-Pierre Blanchard, all-fabric parachute, the year 1785) that 'Leo' actually documented in his notebooks 400 years earlier. Leo's notes contained detailed descriptions, explanations, sketches, and drawings of inventions and ideas that were unheard of in his own time. The pages of notes were scattered, stolen, sold, and eventually recovered. Inventors hundreds of years later created many of the inventions that Leonardo da Vinci actually thought of first!
I love the way this book is set up; one side of the page shows the official inventor and the idea/object, and the other side of the page shows Leo's notes, sketches, and ideas about the same invention, but hundreds of years earlier. Barretta creates a fun way to read nonfiction in this beautifully illustrated picture book.
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