Don Brown (born 1949)[1] is an American author and illustrator of children's books.
Sixteen of Brown's books are Junior Library Guild selections: Kid Blink Beats the World (2004),[2] The Good Lion (2005),[3] Bright Path (2006),[4] Teedie (2009),[5] A Wizard from the Start (2010),[6] Gold!
(2011),[7] Henry and the Cannons (2013),[8] The Great American Dust Bowl (2014),[9] He has Shot the President!
(2014),[10] Drowned City (2015),[11]Aaron and Alexander (2016),[12] The Unwanted (2018),[13] Up and Down (2018),[14] Rocket to the Moon (2019),[15] Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 (2020),[16] and In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers (2021).
[20] In 2015, Aaron and Alexander was included on School Library Journal's list of the best books of year.