Has anyone read…….

I just received my own personal copy from a used book seller this week. Previously I borrowed it from the library, but wanted to have my own now. It’s a thorough book with lots and lots of photographs, almost 300 pages long. I found it fascinating, even just to look at the photos and read their captions. Now that it has sadly gone out of print, another substitute might be Always Inventing: A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell. Always Inventing has an easier reading level and is extremely shorter (about 60 pages), but still interesting. Here are a couple of excerpts to help you decide.

from Life and Times first paragraph: Perhaps it was one of those brilliant late summer days, all too rare in Scotland. In any case one morning in the early 1850s, the professor of elocution Alexander Melville Bell headed out of Edinburgh with his wife and three young sons for an excursion in the countryside south of town.

from Always Inventing first paragraph: Luckily for us, nobody in Alexander Graham Bell’s family ever seemed content with things as they were. Grandfather Bell was born into a family of Scottish shoemakers in 1790. Dissatisfied with the shoe trade, he took up acting and studied literature, grammar, and speech. He became a superb elocutionist, or public speaker, and eventually taught speech.

Does that help any?