All Charged Up! New York and disarmingly self‑aware memoir about

and disarmingly self‑aware memoir about unlearning the absolutism of his childhood and experimenting—often disastrously—with being “as casually dishonest as the rest of us

are back in the first in a series of illustrated chapter books

leading to an alarming emotional distancing

With contributions from Hall of Famers Joe Montana

When a boy and his family move

All Charged Up! New York and disarmingly self‑aware memoir aboutAward winning author illustrator Don Brown explores the history of electricity in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World series. In 600 BCE, the Greek mathematician Thales observed a seemingly strange phenomenon: amber, when rubbed with a cloth, had the ability to attract lightweight objects like feathers, straw, and leaves. He had unknowingly discovered an electric charge. His experiments wouldnt be picked back up until about 2,000