Christian Robinson

He is based in Sacramento, California[1] and has worked with The Sesame Street Workshop and Pixar Animation Studios.

[3] Robinson 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.

His "colorful collage" art helped the book become a 2022 Bank Street Children's Best Books of the Year List with an “Outstanding Merit” distinction and shared the Committee’s Josette Frank Award with Angeline Boulley's Firekeeper's Daughter.

[10] Robinson provided "folk-art style paintings" for Margaret Wise Brown's reissued (2016) The Dead Bird, which received an "Outstanding Merit" distinction on the 2017 Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year List.