Peter Brown, Author . Little, Brown $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-01180-8
Chowder, an English bulldog, baffles everybody with his precocious behavior. He uses the toilet and the computer, and while regular dogs chew bones, he excavates a dinosaur skeleton. His doting owners, Madge and Bernie Wubbington, tote him in a baby
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Peter Brown, Author . Little, Brown $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-01547-9
Brown’s (Chowder
) latest is a quiet but stirring fable of urban renewal, sure to capture imaginations. In exploring his bleak city neighborhood, thoughtful Liam—in Brown’s warm, almost fuzzy acrylic spreads, he looks a little like
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Peter Brown, Little, Brown, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-01548-6
In this tongue-in-cheek role reversal, a girlish bear named Lucy makes a pet of a small boy. She declares him "the cutest critter in the whole forest" and begs her mother, "Can I keep him, please?" Her mother, unbearishly seated in a comfy chair and
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Peter Brown. Little, Brown, $18 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-20063-9
In a gratifying parable about self-actualization, Mr. Tiger lives in a drab society where bipedal animals dressed in fairly Victorian apparel exchange terse salutations, while adhering to rules of etiquette. Though similarly attired in a handsome...
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Peter Brown. Little, Brown, $18 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-07029-4
Context is key in this revelatory tale from Brown (Mr. Tiger Goes Wild), dedicated “to misunderstood teachers and their misunderstood students.” Bobby and his teacher are at odds, and it’s easy to see why: “Ms. Kirby stomped. Ms. Kirby roared.” Ms....
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Peter Brown. Little, Brown, $16.99 (282p) ISBN 978-0-316-38199-4
Brown’s middle-grade debut, an uplifting story about an unexpected visitor whose arrival disrupts the animal inhabitants of a rocky island, has a contemporary twist: the main character is a robot. A hurricane deposits Roz (short for ROZZUM unit 7134)
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Peter Brown.. Little, Brown, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-38204-5
In the thought-provoking sequel to Brown's middle-grade debut, The Wild Robot, the adventure picks up as the resilient Roz (short for ROZZUM unit 7134) is repaired and shipped off to Hilltop Farm. With its domesticated animals and whirring machines,
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Peter Brown. Little, Brown, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-20064-6
First establishing his protagonist’s delight in zooming around the house “naked and wild and free,” Brown (The Wild Robot) shows white-skinned, brown-haired Fred striking one joyful pose after another. But when Fred ends up in a magical place—his...
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Peter Brown, Author, Peter Brown, Illustrator . Little, Brown $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-11038-9
Mild scatological humor provides a running theme through newcomer Brown's tale of a group of flightless birds determined to get themselves airborne. The story opens with Penguin enjoying a beautiful morning. "But just when he waddled outside.
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Peter Brown, Author, Steven Gaines, Author, Steven Gaines, Joint Author New American Library $16 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-20735-7
Nearly two decades after its initial publication, this behind-the-scenes tale reappears in paperback (after all, didn't Rolling Stone say it would ""sell forever""?). One of the suit men-as the Beatles dismissively, often with good reason, called...
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Peter Brown. Princeton Univ., $39.95 (806p) ISBN 978-0-691-15290-5
Drawing on Jesus’ exhortation to a rich young man that owning possessions and true discipleship are incompatible, many Christian traditions have stressed renunciation of worldly goods as the only authentic Christian response to wealth. Other...
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Peter Brown. Harvard Univ., $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-674-96758-8
In this brilliant, brief, and densely elegant study in the history of ideas, Brown (Through the Eye of a Needle), a renowned scholar of early Christian history, vividly illustrates the complex evolution of ideas about wealth and its role in the...
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Peter Brown. Princeton Univ, $45 (600p) ISBN 978-0-691-24228-6
Historian Brown (Through the Eye of a Needle) delivers an insightful and detailed chronicle of his life and academic career. Widely credited with revolutionizing the understanding of late antiquity, revealing it to have been a critical period in the
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Peter Brown and Steven Gaines. St. Martin’s, $32 (352p) ISBN 978-1-25028-501-0
Forty years after The Love You Make, Brown, former COO of Apple Corps, the Beatles’ media corporation, and journalist Gaines reunite for a revealing oral history of the forces that spurred the band’s breakup, which was first announced in 1970....
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