Robinson won the 2014 Ezra Jack Keats Award for New Illustrator for Rain!,written by Linda Ashman, and shared the Marion Vannett Ridegway Honor with author Renée Watson for Harlem’s Little Blackbird. “It’s so amazing-it’s just a classic kid thing to do-and it’s exactly what the book is about.”Ĭelebrating openness, imagination, and the winning combination of mint tea and honey toast, Leo: A Ghost Story (ages 3-6) is the first collaboration by two award-winning friends: Barnett is the author of numerous acclaimed children’s and middle-grade books, including Caldecott Honor–winner Extra Yarn, illustrated by Jon Klassen. “One surprising thing that’s happened is, when I read that first page to kindergarteners, ‘Most people cannot see him,’ they all start screaming.‘I can! I can! I can see him!’ ”Barnett says. Turn the page, and that image gets a notable addition: a bow-tied boy sits under the table, reading a book. The accompanying illustration, by Christian Robinson, is of a windowed, wallpapered room with a table holding books and a candlestick phone. Most people cannot see him,” Mac Barnett writes at the beginning of Leo. Lonely Leo longs for a friend-someone who sees and accepts him for who he truly is.
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