This story was well-told and engaging throughout. I think it will definitely find its right audience and continue to inspire.

Created by the French draftsman and illustrator, William Augel, Young Leonardo is a charming work of fiction inspired by the real-life of Leonardo da Vinci. Here we meet Leonardo as a young boy living with his family in the 15th-century Italian countryside. In an interview published for the New York Public Library, Augel talks about how his visit to the village of Vinci near Florence in Tuscany where Leonardo's childhood home still exists helped him create the atmosphere of the place which shows in the colorful panels throughout the book. The artwork reminds you of the playful lines by Charles M. Schulz. The book follows Leonardo's adventures as a curious boy as he makes art, invents curious contraptions and machines inspired by nature, sculpts, often procrastinates between several ideas and projects, and vacillates between his dreams of becoming at once a writer, an artist, an engineer, a botanist, or a musician. The book has a lovely guide at the end for young readers to explore Leonardo's life and work with discussion themes. That said the book offers the simplicity as well as the complexity of the beautiful mind of one of the greatest polymaths that ever walked the earth which makes it equally enjoyable for adult readers as well. Augel is working on the next comic Young Agatha Christie and I am very much looking forward to reading it too.

4 Stars
This graphic novel comes with comic strips to show us the imaginative childhood of young Leonardo. It is fun to read and see how his mind was constantly working overtime in coming up with something or another.
The illustrations are cute and would look much better on paper. The book ends with details about Da Vinci to help students understand the book easily. There is a list of questions and topics to have a great discussion in the classrooms.
Overall, this is a cute book. Read it when you have time so that you can enjoy the teeny bits of humor in leisure.
Thank you, NetGalley, Humanoids Inc, and BiG, for the ARC.

This cute and comical graphic novel shows a young Leonardo DaVinci in comic strip form. Taking inspiration from Leonardo's life and inventions, Augel introduces some of the situations who could have gotten himself into in a comical format. The facts and activities in the back of the book provide extra entertainment.

I had a great time reading this book. It gave me more laughs than I expected to have thanks to the clever way it is written. To tell the early days of this man in such a fashion was smart and unlike anything I have read before. Leonardo has lots of ideas, and in these pages we see how many of them didn’t go how he hoped they would. Yet he refused to let these setbacks keep him down. As this book came to an end, a new chapter of their life is about to begin.

I was given Young Leonardo by netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This book is so great. Most graphic novels tell a story like normal chapter books. This one was set up like a comic strip and I loved it. My students are going to fall in love with it. I can't wait to read more.