A review by naughty_librarian
Brown by Håkon Øvreås

5.0

I picked up this book because it won this year’s Mildred Batchelder award, and I was not disappointed. This is an absolutely fantastic chapter book for early elementary kids. The tough topics of grief and loneliness are handled here with humor and imagination, accompanied by charming illustrations. Kids will want to go build a fort, dress up like a superhero and fight injustice after reading this, and maybe make some new friends too. I loved how realistically weird (turns out that is a thing!) the one friend Jack is with his tall tales, and I can see myself as the little redheaded girl Lou with her horse pictures.