The Great American Dust Bowl
- Subject
- Science & Nature - Disasters
- Age
- 9-12 years
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 80
- Publisher
- Clarion Books
- Size
- 17.3 cm Ă 25.9 cm
- ISBN
- 9780547815503
A speck of dust is a tiny thing. In fact, five of them could fit into the period at the end of this sentence.
On a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions of these specks of dust to form a dusterâa savage stormâon America's high southern plains.
The sky turned black, sand-filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars, trains derailed, and electricity coursed through the air. Sand and dirt fell like snowâpeople got lost in the gloom and suffocated . . . and that was just the beginning.
Don Brown brings the Dirty Thirties to life with kinetic, highly saturated, and lively artwork in this graphic novel of one of America's most catastrophic natural events: the Dust Bowl.
About the author
Don BrownAuthor
Don Brown is the winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Sibert Honor. He is the author and illustrator of many nonfiction graphic novels for teens and picture book biographies. He has been widely praised for his resonant 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 âa current pacesetter who has put the finishing touches on the standards for storyographies.â He lives in New York with his family.
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What reviewers said
"From its enticing, dramatic cover to its brown endpapers to a comical Grant Wood-esque final image, this is a worthy contribution to the nonfiction shelves." âKirkus, starred review "A magnificent overview of this chapter in U.S. history." âSchool Library Journal "The tale of the decade-long drought that laid waste to American plains and ruined the lives of countless farmers is a somber read, but Brown devotes himself to telling it well." âPublishers Weekly * "Anyone looking for an exemplar of how comics can bring a true story compellingly to lifeâwith depth and sophisticationâneed look noâŚ
