Brown, Don

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Machines that think!

A nonfiction graphic novel that explores the people and technology that made computers, robots, and artificial intelligence possible.

Odd boy out

young Albert Einstein
Presents a picture-book biography of Albert Einstein, focusing on his oddness as a baby and child, and his disinterest in school, and discussing the significance of his discoveries in physics.
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Uncommon traveler

Mary Kingsley in Africa
A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants.
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America is under attack

the day the towers fell : September 11, 2001
Provides a chronological account of September 11, 2001, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.

Alice Ramsey's grand adventure

Describes the difficulties faced by the first woman to make a cross-country journey from New York to San Francisco in an automobile in 1909.

Fever year

the killer flu of 1918 : a tragedy in three acts
2019
In graphic novel format looks at the 1918 worldwide flu epidemic.
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Henry and the cannons

an extraordinary true story of the American Revolution
Through words and vivid artwork, tells the story of bookseller Henry Knox, who in 1775 dragged 59 cannons the 225 wilderness miles from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston, to aid his fellow Revolutionary War patriots.

All stations! distress!

April 15, 1912, the day the Titanic sank
Presents an illustrated account of the Titanic's deadly voyage on April 12, 1912, when two thousand passengers, rich and poor alike, fought to survive the tragedy while partially filled lifeboats launched into the night with seven hundred people as some family members stayed behind.

Alice Ramsey's grand adventure

Describes the difficulties faced by the first woman to make a cross-country journey from New York to San Francisco by automobile in 1909.

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