History Comics: The Great Depression
From Hard Times to the New Deal
Published on 21. October 2025
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-250-81028-1 (ISBN)
Description
In October 1929, a stock market crash in the United States caused millions of people to suddenly lose their savings, their jobs, and everything they owned. Many had to survive by waiting in long breadlines for free food, building their own homes from trash, and making clothes from scraps. Some rode railroad cars in a desperate search for work, only to end up on farms battling huge dust storms. This was the Great Depression, a time of tragedy but also one where people showed immense grit.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Milford
United States
Publishing group
Roaring Brook Press
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 9 years
Illustrations
full-color illustrations throughout
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-250-81028-1 (9781250810281)
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Tim Stout is a writer and editor in western Oregon. He is the developmental editor for several First Second titles, including installments in the Science Comics series. He loves Calvin and Hobbes, Pixar films, and anything to do with his wife and sons. timstoutwrites.com
Joe Flood is a comic book author and illustrator whose work includes Cellies, Pirates of the Caribbean and Orcs: Forged for War. For the Science Comics series, he collaborated on Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers with MK Reed and wrote and illustrated Sharks: Nature's Perfect Hunter. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York's Hudson Valley.
Joe Flood is a comic book author and illustrator whose work includes Cellies, Pirates of the Caribbean and Orcs: Forged for War. For the Science Comics series, he collaborated on Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers with MK Reed and wrote and illustrated Sharks: Nature's Perfect Hunter. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York's Hudson Valley.