He was the winner of the 2014 Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award for Rain! authored by Linda Ashman The book was also a 2014 Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year and Robinson was noted for his 'gentle paint and watercolor illustrations.'

Robinson provided 'colorful bold line drawings' to Renée Watson's 2012 picture book Harlem's Little Blackbird, which earned a spot on the 2013 Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year List. 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. In 2021, he published, alongside Matt de la Peña, Milo Imagines the World. I just followed it into the story.' Last Stop on Market Street was also named to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year List with an 'Outstanding Merit' distinction. 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. The book also won the 2016 Newbery Medal, 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. Robinson was awarded a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor and a Caldecott Honor for Last Stop on Market Street. He lived for seven years in San Francisco before relocating to Sacramento. He began his career in animation until a mentor, Ben Butcher, inspired his shift toward children's books. Robinson grew up in Los Angeles, California, raised by his grandmother in a one-bedroom home shared by six people. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts. He is based in Sacramento, California and has worked with The Sesame Street Workshop and Pixar Animation Studios. Christian Robinson (born August 2, 1986) is an American illustrator of children's books and an animator.

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