2022 YALSA Non-Fiction Award Nominee!

“With striking illustrations and immersive storytelling, this is a helpful primer for young readers who want to learn about the significance of 9/11.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/books/summer-ya-graphic-novel.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/books/summer-ya-graphic-novel.html

“Once again, Brown shows his mastery of the graphic format for portraying humanity in the most trying of circumstances.”

“With a palette of mostly cool or ashy watercolors, the red heat of the destruction abruptly and noticeably pops off the page. Varied panel layouts capture the frenetic pace of the emergency, while spreads offer powerful moments of pause. Detailed back matter includes an afterword, sobering statistics, source notes, and an extensive bibliography. Most of […]

Brown could be considered the format’s premiere historian for young readers; his exhaustive research is always coupled with an understanding of human motivation and an inviting, unostentatious visual style, all while connecting the past to the world we live in now. It’s never been more urgent than in his latest, which is nearly a direct sequel […]

Brown lays out the history of vaccinations in this relevant addition to the “Big Ideas That Changed the World” series. Narrator Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, an early Western champion of inoculation, marches readers through the history of smallpox, a highly contagious disease that claimed millions of lives all over the world, leaving survivors disfigured and blind. Born […]

The Unwanted chosen as a Sibert Honors book! A portion of my awards speech at the ALA Mid Winter Conference.

The Unwanted wins 2019 YALSA AWARD for non-fiction! A portion of my awards speech.

Interview with Julie Danielson

The NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Ceremony was an honor and a great treat. I gave my speech and no one fell asleep so I’m assuming it was a huge success!