Christian Robinson

Christian Robinson is an American illustrator of children's books and an animator. He is based in Sacramento, California[1] and has worked with The Sesame Street Workshop and Pixar Animation Studios.[2] He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts.[3]

Christian Robinson
Robinson at the 2018 Texas Book Festival
OccupationIllustrator
NationalityAmerican
GenreChildren's picture books
Notable worksLast Stop on Market Street
Notable awardsCaldecott Medal Honoree
2016
Coretta Scott King Award Honoree
2016

Personal life

Christian grew up in Los Angeles, California, raised by his grandmother in a one-bedroom home shared by six people.[4] He began his career in animation until a mentor, Ben Butcher, inspired his shift toward children's books.[4] He lived for seven years in San Francisco before relocating to Sacramento.[1]

Awards

Christian was awarded a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor[5] and a Caldecott Honor for Last Stop on Market Street.[6] The book also won the 2016 Newbery Medal,[7][8] for author Matt de la Peña who said of his process, "I know editors often want to keep writers and illustrators apart, but I feel this story really benefited from the fact that I knew Christian was going to be the illustrator. I printed out his piece with the boy on the bus with his grandma and had it next to me as I wrote the story. That piece set the tone, I think. I just followed it into the story."[9]

He was the winner of the 2014 Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award for Rain!.[10]

He was also awarded the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for Josephine in 2015.[1][11]

Gaston was selected in 2015 for an IRA Teachers' Choices Reading List award.[12] and was also selected as a 2015 Notable Children's Book for younger readers by the Association for Library Service to Children.[13]

Selected works
  • Harlem's Little Blackbird by Renee Watson (2012)
  • Rain! by Linda Ashman (2013)
  • Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell (2013)
  • Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio (2014)
  • The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade by Justin Roberts (2014)
  • Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña (2015)
  • Leo: A Ghost Story by Mac Barnett (2015)
  • The Dead Bird by Margaret Wise Brown reissued in (2016)
  • School's First Day of School by Adam Rex (2016)
  • Little Penguins by Cynthia Rylant (2016)
  • Antoinette by Kelly DiPucchio (2017)
  • When's My Birthday? by Julie Fogliano (2017)
  • Carmela Full of Wishes by Matt de la Peña (2018)
  • Another by Christian Robinson (2019)
  • Just in Case You Want to Fly by Julie Fogliano (2019)
  • He illustrated the jacket for Sunny Day: A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song (2019)

References
  1. "Where the Magic Happens". Retrieved 20 Feb 2020.
  2. "Meet the Illustrator: Christian Robinson".
  3. "Seven Questions Over a Late-Night Breakfast with Christian Robinson".
  4. "Illustrator Christian Robinson headlines Books to Treasure". Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  5. "The Coretta Scott King Book Awards". Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  6. "Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938-Present". Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  7. "'Last Stop On Market Street' Wins Newbery Medal, 'Finding Winnie' Takes Caldecott". NPR.org. 11 January 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  8. "Matt de la Peña Becomes First Latino Male Author to Win Prestigious Newbery Medal - Latino USA". Latino USA. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  9. "Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast". blaine.org. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  10. "Press Release: 2014 EJK Book Award". Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  11. "The Coretta Scott King Award". Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  12. "Book awards: IRA Teachers' Choices Reading List". Library Thing. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  13. "ALSC names 2015 Notable Children's Books". American Library Association. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
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