![]() ![]() "It was a way to have some control over my circumstances." "Making pictures was certainly my way of having some say over the world and what things could look like," he says. Robinson's grandmother raised him - along with his brother, two cousins, and an aunt - in a one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles. ![]() "My mother struggled with addiction and mental health and was in and out of prison most of my childhood," Robinson says. Robinson had been thinking about telling his own story. The last time they were on book tour together, de la Peña and Robinson were sitting together in a café discussing which project they should work on next. "We see the real world that Milo exists in, but we also see the world inside his head," he says. Robinson had a lot of fun creating two worlds in the book. ![]() "It's about a boy who is a budding artist and he's looking at all the interesting people around him on the subway ride, and he's imagining their lives as a way to pass the time," de la Peña says. Milo Imagines the World is the third book from author Matt de la Peña and illustrator Christian Robinson - the Newbery Medal and Caldecott Honor winning duo behind Last Stop on Market Street and Carmela Full of Wishes. Sitting on the subway beside his big sister, young Milo is "a shook-up soda." He feels "excitement stacked on top of worry on top of confusion on top of love." The kids are on their way to visit their mother, who is incarcerated. ![]()
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