Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal‎

Blumenthal, K. (2012). Steve Jobs: the man who thought different. New York: Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends.

Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different starts with Jobs speaking to the Stanford graduates in 2005. He began telling how he was adopted and became interested in putting parts together in machines and technology from early on. Jobs describes the various companies he founded such as Apple and NeXT. Jobs was a technology genius. Over the years as Apple was struggling, Jobs finally figured out a way to put a computer, calendar, address book, calculator, and music library all in a phone, the iPhone. Jobs was a family man, but had a bad temper at times. Unfortunately, Jobs only got to see a few years of the iPhone and newly release iPad’s success because he died in 2011 of pancreatic cancer. At the end of his speech to the graduates, he told them to live each day like it would be the last because one day it would be. This biographical text by Karen Blumenthal gives an overview of Jobs’ journey on how he changed technology forever. Not only does the book talk about his professional endeavors, but also his personal ones. The colorful word “Different” in the title has a symbolic meaning. “Think Different” was an ad campaign, and the colors were the ones used on the Apple logo. Pictures are also incorporated throughout the text, which helps the reader put themselves in that time period in Jobs’ life. I not only recommend this book to young adults, but also “new adults”. Many young adults own iPhones and will understand how the phone they use daily is a fairly new product. For new adults this book might bring back memories of their experience with computers as they grew up and how much of an impact Steve Jobs inadvertently had on their life. Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different was a 2013 Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults finalist. . Here is a book trailer I recommend: https://youtu.be/wKIr50byW2c