Hello Ruby: Journey inside the Computer by Linda Liukas -OPTIONAL

Liukas, Linda Hello Ruby: Journey inside the Computer, 96 pages.  NON-FICTION. Feiwel (MacMillan), 2017.  $17.

This book starts with the story of Ruby, who goes to use her dads computer and discovers that something is wrong with it. She is able to shrink down and journey with the mouse to see what’s going on. She tours the workings of the computer and makes discoveries about how it works. The next part of the book is a series of games and activities, mostly about computer parts and how computers function but there are also a few basic coding activities. Bright illustrations throughout.

I get the point of the this book –to make learning about computers more like a story (showing) but it just ends up being more confusing than spelling it out (telling). But it was just overload. This book is stuffed with SO much technical information, which is better understood by an upper elementary but presented for much younger readers –giving it a content-audience mismatch. I wouldn’t add this book to my library.  

EL –OPTIONAL.  Stephanie, Elementary School Librarian & Author