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Don Brown

Biography

Don Brown

Don Brown is the award-winning author and illustrator of many
picture book biographies. He has been widely praised for hisresonant storytelling and his delicate watercolor paintings
that evoke the excitement, humor, pain, and joy of lives lived
with passion. School Library Journal has called him “a current
pacesetter who has put the finishing touches on the
standards for storyographies.”
 THE GREAT AMERICAN DUSTBOWL has been nominated for the Texas Blue Bonnet Award, the third time one of Don's books has been honored. DROWNED CITY is Don's latest book. He lives in New York with his family.

Books by Don Brown

Rocket to the Moon!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #1
by Don Brown - Adventure, Children's 8-12, Children's Nonfiction, History, Science
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
by Don Brown - Current Affairs, Graphic Novel, History, Human Rights, Nonfiction, Social Issues, Young Adult 14+
The Great American Dust Bowl
by Don Brown - Environment, Graphic Novel, History, Nature, Nonfiction, Young Adult 12+
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
written and illustrated by Don Brown - Biography, Nonfiction, Young Adult 12+

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under 20 feet of water; property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion; and 1,833 people lost their lives. The riveting tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism and courage --- and also of incompetence, racism and criminality. Don Brown’s kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history.

Detained
by Don Brown - Fiction
Hasan Makari and his son, Najib, both Lebanese nationals, have dreamed of the day they would experience the shining freedom of America. But when they arrive in the US, they are arrested, accused of terrorism, and incarcerated at the Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp in Cuba, all on false charges. Suddenly, they face the nightmare of death by execution. Their only hope is Navy JAG Officer Matt Davis, who has been assigned to the case of his life --- to defend the Makaris in court at Guantánamo Bay.