Tag: Don Brown

It’s About Time!: A Fun Dive into Concepts of Time

Time is a tricky concept because it’s abstract, can be a noun or a verb, and is countable or uncountable. It’s About Time!: Big Ideas That Changed the World is the sixth in this graphic novel series and is almost as audacious as that Egyptian who suggested dividing a day into 12 parts. The ancient Egyptians counted on their three mid-fingers, as well as, their pinky, plus two of the knuckles on their pinky. But time and people needing to record it for one reason or another didn’t start with them. It’s About Time takes the 500-pound confusing gorilla and tackles it head-on. The graphic novel makes an esoteric topic like ‘time’ interesting, makes young readers think and doesn’t pretend to know all of the answers.

It’s About Time!: Big Ideas That Changed the World is the sixth in this fabulous non-fiction graphic novel series that threads the needle between fun and education.
IT’s a graphic novel that’s smarter than you and it’s OK.

A Shot In The Arm!, the antibody of the graphic novel blaaahs

Discovery is a great thing and I love it when I find an author that was previously unknown to me. Just to be clear, in this instance I mean an author that’s written and published books and not an author that I discovered down at my local coffee shop. Don Brown is in the third book in his Big Ideas That Changed The World series on Amulet Books. I had seen the first and second books from the series in our elementary school library, and meant to read them, but got distracted by shiny objects or cat videos. A Shot In The Arm! is a non-fiction graphic novel that’s as great as any of the ones that we’ve raved about from :01 First Second books or Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales.

Big Ideas That Changed The World, A Shot In The Arm is an entertaining and fun history of vaccinations that curious kids will want to read.
The non-fiction graphic novel doledrums have met their match
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