Absolutely stunning artwork and a charming story.

I have been a big fan go Kuhlmann's work since I first read 'Moletown' a number of years ago. I have been highly anticipating the release of 'Einstein' in English, and was so excited to receive a copy through Netgalley that I dropped everything else and read it immediately.

Kuhlmann's illustrations in 'Einstein' are true to his usual style: visually stunning, detailed, and full of warmth and humor. The story itself is captivating, about a little mouse who invents a time machine to go back and visit a cheese fair that he missed. It is sweet and gently funny, with plenty of adventure and suspense. Kuhlmann also weaves in a bit of history and scientific theory into the story without ever losing his audience.

I am so looking forward to adding this treasure to our library and recommending it to students, teachers and parents.

I am a sucker for Torben Kuhlmann’s books. He is an amazing illustrator and his stories are well crafted. As a former science teacher, I enjoy how the characters always have to problem solve when their initial trials/experiments fail. How they have to rely on other scientists for help. I love the use of scientific language throughout the story, scientists’ biography, and explanations of scientific concepts at the end. I love the history interwoven into a heartfelt story about a curious mouse.

To conclude, I LOVED this book! It was creative and engaging – made me chuckle in several parts. The illustrations are stellar (as always) and the story is cute and educational! A must read for all ages, children and adults alike.

Thank you Netgalley and North South Books for this ARC. I loved this book and look forward to adding it to our library upon its release. I will also be sharing it with all my nieces and nephews because they have thoroughly enjoyed Torben Kuhlmann’s other works!

Stunning visual values add immensely to the whimsical tale of a mouse who has been ticking off the days until a fabulous human cheese festival, only to arrive and find he was a day late. Oh, if only he could turn back time. When a mouse who had managed to attend cattily calls him an "Einstein" for his mistake, that and a meeting with a mouse clockmaker lead him to the original patent office where the original Einstein once worked. And there... well, that's for me to know and for as many as possible to find out. Unfortunately there are two hindrances between this and a full five star rating, although the pleasures it can give the right audience are manifold. One is the fact the vocab and levels of complexity in the text imply a secondary school audience, when the design and cutesiness suggest a primary school age; the second is the fact the story really fails poorly to apply proper time travel rules to a story of time travel – there are three major incidences where the effect is known to have happened before the cause. That aside, I could not fault the intent, nor the visual execution. A summary of Einstein's life and theories closes out what, despite my quibbles, is a thing to treasure – if not completely.