The Story of Ada LovelaceDaughter of the famous romantic poet Lord Byron Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths she read numbers like most people read words. Lady Byron wanted Ada to be as unlike her father as possible. Ada grew up surrounded by an army of tutors who taught her every subject every waking moment except for poetry. In 1843 Ada came to the attention of Charles Babbage a scientist and inventor who had just built a miraculous machine called the

Brilliantly illustrated by Claire Powell

Hunted by friends and foes alike

A laugh-out-loud picture book from the bestselling author of Oi Frog

but good English

Cyrus because he hid

the minotaur Moo

intellectual heft

When I think of Siberia I hear the sound of fresh snow crunching beneath my feet

as she said

But when the family's attorney digs deeper

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