This could be really a fun read if you're looking for a superficial overview of Einstein's life, and I mean that in the best possible way! Like a YA biography, or for someone under 30/40 who's never been exposed to anything about Einstein beyond he's a genius, E=MC squared, and that funny photo where he's sticking out his tongue. I would even say OK for 11 and up if the fact that Einstein was a womanizer isn't a problem...
Anne Simon's illustrations are engaging and fun, but for me the content was just OK, but not great.
If you've read, watched, listened to anything about his life, you won't find anything new here.
It was frustrating for me to read about the intellectual, physical, sexual and emotional labor of women that contributed to his genius. It isn't news to me and Maier just presented it at face value, didn't call this into question. We just love our icons, our stars, but god forbid we admit just how much the old saying was/is true, "behind every good man there's a great woman" - or in Einstein's case, several.