Dean Robbins, illus. by Lucy Knisley. Knopf, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-55185-7
Robbins (Miss Paul and the President) traces the life of mathematician and self-described software engineer Margaret Hamilton. Beginning with her early life as a curious girl who questioned (and studied) everything, Robbins moves briskly through her
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Dean Robbins, illus. by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko. Scholastic/Orchard, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-39996-8
Robbins’s debut introduces two mutually supportive U.S. civil rights activists, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. After Douglass drives his horse-drawn wagon down a snowy street, the subsequent spread of a room aglow in warm candlelight shows
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Dean Robbins, illus. by Elizabeth Baddeley. Knopf, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-12571-7
Bursting with clouds of dust and rocket flames, realistic mixed-media spreads by Baddely (Leave It to Abigail!) deliver concentrated energy to this picture biography of sportswoman Kitty O’Neil (1946–2018). On the cover, O’Neil looks intently out of
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Dean Robbins, illus. by Sean Rubin. Orchard, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-338-25953-7
Robbins introduces Alan Bean, the Apollo 12 astronaut who painted his experience of walking on the moon. Working in an approachable, cartoony art style, Rubin depicts Bean as a boy dreaming of learning to fly, then as a navy pilot and budding...
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Dean Robbins, illus. by Eric Velasquez. Candlewick, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0608-1
When the band Machito and His Afro-Cubans “make a brand-new sound called Latin jazz” in 1940, everyone in New York City dances to it—Italian people such as Millie, and Puerto Rican folks like Pedro, the best dancers in their respective neighborhoods.
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Dean Robbins, illus. by Susanna Chapman. Candlewick, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2486-3
Legendary jazz musician Viola Smith (1912–2020) gets a much-deserved spotlight in Robbins’s ringing tribute. Onomatopoeic lines describe Smith’s childhood exposure to drums as the youngest member of the Smith Sisters Orchestra, which traveled the U.S
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Dean Robbins, illus. by Matt Tavares. Knopf, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-47925-4
Despite detailed, documentary-style illustrations by Tavares (Hoops) and eloquent prose by Robbins (The Fastest
Drummer), this work offers a spotty account of how landscape-related knowledge came to be represented visually and at scale. Beginning...
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