Rocket to the Moon (Abrams) follows the fascinating tale of rocketry from the ancient Chinese to Neil Armstrong’s step on the moon.

The Unwanted has been selected as a finalist for the 2019 Young Adult Librarian Services Association (YALSA) Award

Interview with Julie Danielson

There are over five million Syrian refugees around the world today, and each one has a unique story. Brown returns to the comics format of Drowned City (rev. 9/15) and The Great American Dust Bowl (rev. 11/13) to create a powerful history of the Syrian civil war, punctuated with the stories of many individual refugees.With the incorporation […]

Horn Book

THE UNWANTED Stories of the Syrian Refugees [STARRED REVIEW!] illus. by Don Brown. 112p. bibliog. maps. notes. HMH. Sept. 2018. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9781328810151.   Gr 8 Up–In the spring of 2011, a group of teenage boys are imprisoned and tortured for spray-painting “Down with the regime” on a Syrian wall. Thousands of citizens who […]

He Has Shot the President!, my book recounting Lincoln’s assassination and the capture of John Wilkes Booth, was published by Roaring Brook Press in April, the 150th anniversary of the tragedy. It was enthusiastically received; A wonderful review here. A nifty slideshow of some of my art can be seen here.

I’m working on two exciting projects, Drowned City and Aaron and Alexander. The former tells the tell the story of the Hurricane Katrina and the disaster that it brought to New Orleans in 2005. I bring a graphic novel style to the tale. The 96 page book will perfect for 10 to 12 year-old readers. […]

The Times says I’m keen. Here

School Library Journal: STARRED REVIEW Gr 1-4–As the American Revolution was getting underway, George Washington knew he needed cannons to defeat the British. Unfortunately, he was camped outside British-held Boston, and the nearest big guns were 300 miles away at Fort Ticonderoga, New York. They were thought to be impossible to retrieve, until Henry Knox […]