A fantastic and cute story about the life of Ada Lovelace. The illustrations are fantastic and really bring her story to life. This would definitely be a great read for young people to learn more about important historical figures and, in particular, important female figures. The books does a great job in ensuring its young audience will be able to understand the more difficult aspects of Lovelace's legacy by simplifying it. My only question would be "is it too simple?" but that's a minor quibble.

This is the kind of story that inspires young people to follow their dreams and do what they love. Ada was discouraged from using her imagination to invent machines. Her story shows us how powerful your imagination can be. This is an utterly charming read.

for Ada:
I was reading another biography of Ada Lovelace, which left me a little underwhelmed and sad. But this 12-paged book introduces us to Ada exactly how she should be remembered. A brilliant woman without whose efforts the modern computer might have taken some more time to come into effect, a true STEM pioneer and champion! And that is wonderful.


In Summary: for a few of the LPBD books featured together on my blog post at LadyInReadWrites
These books are adorable, admirable, and works of art all rolled together with a dose of inspiration for the youngest audiences! Buy the whole set for that little one you know 🙂

I know I am going use these as gifts in the future. And work on reading the others in the series as well soon.

Rating: A; and the board books are for up to 5 years of age while the picture books are for 5 to 8 year olds.

Disclaimer: Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books) for the eARCs of the above books All reviews include my honest opinions of the books.

I love this book, it was very informative and the color scheme fit with Ada Lovelace lifestyle & time period.
I recommend to any old or new parent!

I ADORED the illustrations. As someone who knows the full Ada Lovelace story, I was looking for a little biography to inspire my girls. It was just too short! It needed to be about twice as long, in my opinion. However, it was beautiful and one I would gladly add to my own shelf.

A small history, intended for kids, of the famous mathematician.
Immediately I laugh on the first page, when it says her father “liked” poetry.
The thought bubbles are a little silly, both by what they contain and the fact the animals have them too.
The ending was a bit simplistic, but basically accurate.
3.5 pushed up to 4/5

Part of the Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Ada Lovelace is a wonderful addition. I enjoyed the story of Ada’s life through this picture book full of wonderful illustrations. It is fairly short with few words on each page. Very easy for preschoolers to follow. I just love this series!
Thank you so much to Quarto Publishing Group and NetGalley for this review copy.

This is a non-fiction book about the life of Ada Lovelace. Part of the series, ‘Little People, BIG DREAMS’, “Ada Lovelace” is the tenth book and the first one I’ve read.

Ada’s mum liked maths and her dad liked poetry and when she was still very small, Ada and her mum had to go and live with Ada’s Grandma and her cat. Encouraged by her mum, Ada, too, liked maths and problem-solving and, much later, she meets inventor, Charles Babbage. They worked together developing a machine that led to the computer as we know it today.

The wonderful illustrations in “Ada Lovelace” really complement the text and I am sure both adults and small children will delight in this book as much as I did!

[Thanks to #NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for my ARC of #AdaLovelace in exchange for an honest review.]

Little People, Big Dreams is a wonderful series of short informative books for very young children introducing them to people who have influenced our lives with their inventions, achievements and brilliant ideas.
The book is written in very simple sentences that even a toddler can understand. The pictures are beautifully quirky and go really well with the text. Having recently read another well-researched biography of Ada Lovelace, I do appreciate the way the author condensed the information and presented it in an age-appropriate way. We learn about Ada’s famous family, her love of maths and problem-solving, meeting Charles Babbage, and the significance of Ada’s creation of a code language to program machines.
A great addition to any pre-school or home library.
Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing group for the ARC provided in exchange for an honest opinion.

Ada Lovelace grew up dreaming, with a vivid imagination and excellent mathematical skills. She loved to invent imaginary machines that her mother did not approve of. Despite this disapproval, she went on to work with the famous inventor Charles Babbage who was building a calculator. Ada invented the code that went on to become the first computer programming. It is insightful book that teaches children to dream big and let their imagination run. It is educational, interesting, and empowering especially for women. The illustrations are quite child-like which accompanies the story well as it is simple and easy to read. I think children would enjoy trying to draw similar pictures. It carries important messages for children and adults alike. I also learnt something from this book having never heard of Ada Lovelace and is it a book/series I will definitely read with my child in the future.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The illustrations are beautiful and have a bit of whimsy to them sometimes that matches really well with Ada Lovelace’s wonderful imagination and out of the box thinking. I think the page that illustrates her big break-through with regards to coding is very well done and is a great way to visualize a really complicated matter so that it is understandable for young children. A lot of the colors used are rather dark or muted, though, giving the book a bit of a foreboding, somber atmosphere.
Purely on a content level, I’d have liked to have seen a bit more about Ada as a person, something about losing her father (“who liked poetry”…), becoming a mother, her attempts to study in a day and age when women weren’t allowed yet and viewed as less than men. She died really young and in a lot of pain, so I can understand that being glossed over or left out, but a little extra information about her life would have been nice. The focus is on her accomplishment, which is absolutely amazing! But we lose her a bit as a person.
I think Ada Lovelace very much deserves her place in this line-up of wonderful children’s books and I hope more girls, and boys, will be inspired by her story.

'Ada Lovelace' by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara with illustrations by Zafouko Yamamoto is a picture book about the life and times of Ada Lovelace.

Ada Lovelace had a mother who loved mathematics and a father who loved poetry. When her father left when Ada was little, Ada spent time with her grandparents and their cat. Ada had a good imagination, which she later learned with Charles Babbage working on a Difference Engine. What Ada did on the machine led to what we do with computers today.

There is a little more detail given in the back of the book along with some portraits of Ada. The illustrations are really good as is the text. Not too dense and of interest to young readers. I don't know if this will spark interest in young readers, but I enjoyed this book.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Quarto Publishing Group and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

This is another charming entry in the board book version of the Little People, Big Dreams series. It tells the story of Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who programmed an early computer-like invention. The story is simply told with appealing illustrations. Young children can find Ada's white cat throughout the story.

This series received kudos from me. It inspires children to explore, be curious and know that a world of discovery awaits them.
Many thanks to NetGalley and Quarto publishing for another entry in a favorite series.

I love this book series for young children. I appreciated a pre-k biography about a woman who loved to problem solve and was a pioneer in coding. This book has simple illustrations and sentences. Both child and parent can talk more in depth about the photos and how Ada can inspire young children, specifically girls, in math today.

This was still enjoyable, but I thought it was one of the weaker books in the series. Lovelace is such a fascinating person, and I think her story is too over-simplified here.

This is a wonderful introduction into Ada Lovelace's brilliance. Its a great conversation starter and teachers and parents can use this to begin discussing Lovelace's contribution to the math and science world.

There are beautiful pictures to go along with this great story.

Good read. Interesting person in history. Great illustrations to compliment the story. Read with kids.

Yamamoto's drawings are very nice, so much so that I wanted to pick up a stencil and copy or draw something just looking at the pictures.

The text and story is sketchy and I don't know whether kids ages 4 and up won't ask questions over it: Why did Ada go to live with her grandmom? What has imagination got to do with building a mathematical code? Ada seems like interested in making balloons and airplanes but her mother tells her to focus on maths and she does and is a success - so is the moral of the story to follow parents' advice or following your own dreams? Ada applied logic and got the code. Plus, were women supposed to study maths when Ada was young or did she face resistance or was her mom a pioneer in that department?

But it's a good way to introduce kids to historical figures who have been a part of progressive social change and impacted society in concrete ways and show them productive idols and ideals.

The drawings are very cool.

Another win for the My First Little People, Big Dreams series! I'm not personally sure who is choosing the subjects of these books but what a great job they are doing. This book was a lovely little story about Ada Lovelace, that highlighted a few of her key accomplishments in an accessible way for little ones.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for making this book available for an honest review.

"Baby Ada's mother liked maths and her father liked poetry."

Welllllll, that's a great way to sum it up? You should have seen my face when I discovered there's a "Little People, Big Dreams" book about Ada Lovelace! This one's language is definitely targeted at a younger audience than the other volumes I've read, as reflected by the illustration style that intentionally looks a lot like a child's drawings. That doesn't make it less goth. Another neat installment, although the topic itself would have been more suited and easily adapted for older kids.

Ada Lovelace is a board book addition to the Little People, Big Dreams series designed to be read aloud to babies and toddlers. Although Ada Lovelace is an important historical figure, critical in the development of the calculator, so few people know of her, it’s wonderful she has this introduction to a new generation (as well as to the people who read to them).

Vegara does a good job distilling Lovelace’s story, and the vocabulary involved in her inventions, to a beginning level, and Yamamoto’s illustrations are delightful. Ada’s cat, Mrs. Puff, appears on every spread, and it’s fun to find her in the background. There are also nice details like simple mathematical problems and subtle additions like the 0-1 binary language in a background of a portrait of Ada.

Although I very much like the book and think it is a valuable addition to a young reader’s library, I thought the first pages, of Ada’s childhood, were a little vague, and that the narrative really developed once Ada recognized her talent for invention.

Ada faced significant hurdles, including her mother’s skepticism, sexism, and the disbelief of scientists. These are present but played down in the text, though the message that using one’s imagination and being persistent shines through.