Daniel Hernandez with Susan Goldman Rubin. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4424-6228-1
Hernandez, who was a 20-year-old intern for U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords when she was shot by a gunman in January 2011, was thrust into the media spotlight and praised for his actions during the assault. His tense, moment-by-moment...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author . Abrams $18.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5477-9
Rubin (Margaret Bourke-White
) emphasizes child-friendly angles on Andy Warhol in this glancing biography. She focuses on Warhol's underappreciated art-school genius, his enthusiasm for drafting fashion spreads of shoes, his prolific Siamese...
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Susan Goldman Rubin. Abrams, $21.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1642-3
Wedge shoes, shoulder bags, themed fashion collections, and the color hot pink are only a few of the firsts credited to designer Elsa Shiaparelli. Rubin (Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People) catalogues Schiaparelli's childhood influences and her...
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Susan Goldman Rubin. Roaring Brook/Porter, $21.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59643-884-2
Musical-theater lovers will devour this detailed exploration of Stephen Sondheim’s productions, beginning with his earliest attempt: a musical he wrote at the age of 15 about campus life at his boarding school in Bucks County, Pa. Rubin (Music Was...
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Susan Goldman Rubin. Abrams, $21.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4197-2131-1
Rubin (Hot Pink: The Life and Fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli) tells the story of a folk art form passed down through generations in a small corner of the Deep South. Descended from the enslaved and, later, tenant farmers, the women quilters of Gee’s...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author Harcourt Children's Books $10.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-15-276632-0
Thirteen years old and ``developmentally disabled,'' Emily Gold longs to be like other teenagers, but she knows she's ``special''--a euphemism she's grown to hate. Realizing that she's maturing (she's proud to be menstruating), Emily resents her...
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Susan Goldman Rubin. Chronicle, $17.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-4521-0837-7
Rubin (The Quilts of Gee’s Bend) adds to her catalogue of artist biographies, succinctly chronicling some of the work of architect and artist Maya Lin. Published to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C
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Susan Goldman Rubin. Abrams, $18.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4197-2544-9
In this handsomely designed biography, Rubin (Maya Lin: Thinking with Her Hands) offers a succinct, balanced portrayal of controversial haute couturière Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883–1971). After an impoverished start in life, the young milliner—repu
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author . Abrams $24.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5035-1
Published in association with the Jewish Museum, this celebration of "the 350th anniversary of the first recorded Jewish settlement in North America" (according to the preface) takes a sincere approach and brims with wonderful photographs,...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author . Abrams $19.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4514-2
Although the promise of newly rediscovered correspondence from Anne Frank can hardly fail to generate excitement, the "letters" here (held since 1988 by the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance) are likely to disappoint. The...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author . Abrams $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4492-3
Fans of film will revel in this behind-the-scenes look at Spielberg's childhood, movies and the choices that led to his stellar career. Rubin (Margaret Bourke-White; Frank Lloyd Wright) quotes liberally from articles plus interviews she...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author . Holiday $8.95 (47p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1681-3
Rubin briefly profiles Dicker-Brandeis, a Bauhaus-trained art therapist who brought art supplies with her when she was deported from Prague to the Terezin concentration camp and then gave art lessons to the children there. "The children's...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author . Holiday $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1435-2
Rubin's (Margaret Bourke-White) informative and often surprising survey chronicles how 10 "architectural eyesores [became] icons—beloved symbols of cities, countries and cultures." Beginning with the Washington Monument (initially...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author, David Slonim, Illustrator , illus. by David Slonim. Abrams $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8109-1087-4
Rubin's (L'Chaim!: To Jewish Life in America
) picture-book biography sheds light on Haym Salomon, a Jewish Polish emigrant credited with being the "Financier of the American Revolution." A polyglot with a wealth of experience in...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, illus. by Jeff Himmelman. . Abrams, $18.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8109-9733-2
Move over, Jack Sparrow. Jean Laffite grew up hearing stories of how his Jewish family was persecuted in Spain and forced to flee to Port-au-Prince in what is now Haiti. Carrying a letter of marque from France, Laffite (c. 1776–c. 1823) and his...
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Susan Goldman Rubin. Chronicle, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-1185-8
Roy Lichtenstein’s dramatic blowups of comic book fragments served as ironic commentary on high art, but Rubin (Stand There! She Shouted: The Invincible Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron) interprets them as a child would, seeing a painting of a...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author, Joseph A. Smith, Joint Author , illus. by Jos. A. Smith. Abrams $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4588-3
This intriguing introduction to two esteemed painters, published in association with the Art Institute of Chicago, spans two months at the end of 1888, when Gauguin accepted van Gogh's invitation to live and work at his yellow house in Arles....
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Susan Goldman Rubin, illus. by Bill Farnsworth. Holiday House, $18.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2251-7
Arresting oil paintings pair with vivid prose to tell the story of a Polish social worker who concealed Jewish children from the Nazis. In her third collaboration with Farnsworth set during WWII, Rubin reveals Sendler's harrowing efforts to...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author, Bill Farnsworth, Illustrator , illus. by Bill Farnsworth. Holiday $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1653-0
Although Rubin and Farnsworth have each worked on books about the Holocaust—Fireflies in the Dark
and A Hero and the Holocaust
, respectively—this is their first joint effort, a testament to the combined power of their talent. The...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline. Candlewick, $16.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5753-6
This accomplished collaboration chronicles the life and work of Julia Margaret Cameron, a 19th-century pioneer of elaborately staged, purposefully out-of-focus photographic portraiture. Cameron's photographs are interspersed with Ibatoulline's (The...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author, Ela Weissberger, Author with Ela Weissberger. Holiday $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1831-2
Brundibár
, the children's opera that was performed in the Terezin concentration camp and whose story was retold in Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak's recent picture book, gets a unique "behind-the-scenes" treatment here, in a...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author, American Federation of Arts, Other, School of American Ballet, Other ABRAMS $19.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-0567-2
A quartet of titles challenge readers to look beyond the basics when it comes to artwork. For Susan Goldman Rubin's picture book biography Degas and the Dance: The Painter and the Petits Rats, Perfecting Their Art, created in partnership with the
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Susan Goldman Rubin, Author, Margaret Bourke-White, Author ABRAMS $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4381-0
Rubin (Frank Lloyd Wright) centers her articulate, accessible portrait of this renowned photojournalist on 56 of Bourke-White's astounding duotone photographs. The cover image, one of the few here not shot by Bourke-White, shows her perched atop a...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, illus. from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Abrams, $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-4197-2843-3
From its petal-pink satin binding to its gleaming foiled title and page decorations evoking tulle and twisting ribbon curls, this introduction to Edgar Degas is squarely aimed at readers fond of a certain dance aesthetic. The froufrou design...
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Susan Goldman Rubin. Holiday House, $19.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3957-7
Rubin (Coco Chanel) presents a detailed history of voting in America and the numerous battles to garner this right for people other than white, male property owners. Although the topics skip back and forth chronologically, historical photos and...
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Susan Goldman Rubin. Calkins Creek, $19.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-62979-857-8
Rubin (Give Us the Vote!) skillfully recounts the life of outstanding student, athlete, actor, singer, and social activist Paul Robeson (1898–1976), interlacing narrative of his artistic career with commentary on his position on and accomplishments...
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Susan Goldman Rubin. Calkins Creek, $18.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-6626-8010-6
Attentively recounting their impact on the film industry, Rubin (Madame Alexander) centers intersectionally diverse pioneering women from 1900 to 1940, including Dorothy Emma Arzner, a queer film director; Hattie McDaniel, the first Black person to...
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Susan Goldman Rubin, illus. by Susanna Chapman. Abrams, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4197-5436-4
Glass designer Clara Driscoll (1861–1944) dazzles in this illuminating story about her pivotal role in creating some of Tiffany Glass Company’s most iconic pieces. Beginning with the protagonist’s love of nature in her Ohio childhood, the book leaps
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