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

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 […]

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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 […]

FROM THE HORNBOOK: A Wild but True History of Earth by Don Brown and Mike Perfit; illus. by Don Brown Intermediate, Middle School Houghton 104 pp. g 9/17 978-0-544-80503-3 $18.99 An extended conversation between a science-savvy groundhog and a new-to- Earth’s-history worm features a comprehensive overview of the geological past of our planet. The graphic format, […]

Very exciting news! I’m so happy the book was well received! Hurray Drowned City!

“StoryWalk at Knox Town Park We recently collaborated with Friends of the Berne Library to install the second StoryWalk at the town park behind the fire station. Here the Reffe children learn about Henry Knox in “Henry and the Cannons: An Extraordinary True Story of the American Revolution” by Don Brown. Was the Town of […]

August 9, 2015 NY Times Sunday Book Review HERE. Also Times Editor’s Choice! “This book could almost make its point on the powerful illustrations alone, but Brown’s precise language secures the historical details in an unforgettable way.”

* “An excellent chronicle of the tragedy for a broad audience; children, teens, and adults will all be moved.” —Kirkus, starred review   *  “Lively, dynamic sketching gives the artwork a sense of urgency and immediacy. It is as important to tell the story of a nation’s failures as it is to record its triumphs, […]

LA TImes picked Drowned City for its summer reading list!