The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon

By Dean Robbins and Sean Rubin ’09

Published Oct. 10, 2019

The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon (Scholastic Inc.) shows Alan Bean, a pilot with dreams of painting life from the seat of a cockpit. Author Dean Robbins and illustrator Sean Rubin ’09 capture Bean’s amazement with the moon’s surface and interpretation of space through vivid ideas and illustrations of Bean’s real paintings.

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