Sean Rubin is an American

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and author of children's books. Rubin is known for writing and illustrating the children's book ''Bolivar''. He also illustrated some of the ''

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'' and ''

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''mouseguard.net''. Retrieved 12 November 2013. Rubin was born in

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and lives in

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Bolivar

''Bolivar'' is about Bolivar the

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and his young neighbour Sybil in New York City. Rubin began work on ''Bolivar'' in 2003, commencing illustration work in 2011. Published by Archaia in 2017, ''Bolivar'' was named an NY Public Libraries Best Book of 2017, and was also nominated for an Eisner Award. In April 2018 it was announced ''Bolivar'' was acquired by Fox,

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and

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to be adapted into a feature film.

This Very Tree

In 2021 Rubin wrote and illustrated ''This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth.'' Published by Pan Macmillan, the book narrates the life of the

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nicknamed the " Survivor Tree", discovered at Ground Zero following the

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attacks in New York.

Awards

Rubin and author Susan Kusel won the

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in 2022 for their book ''The Passover Guest,'' a retelling of the I.L. Peretz story. It was published by Neal Porter Books in 2021.

References

External links

Sean Rubin's blog
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