Description Journey to the moon on the Apollo 12 mission with Alan Bean, the fourth Astronaut to walk on the lunar surface and the only artist to paint its beauty firsthand As a boy, Alan wanted to fly planes.
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They have two sons and live in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Sean graduated from Princeton University, where he met his wife, Lucy.
An only child, he entertained himself by collecting interesting things, learning about unusual subjects, and by drawing characters from books.
Sean Rubin was born in Brooklyn, New York. net.
Learn more at deanrobbins.
Dean grew up idolizing Apollo astronauts and loved working with Alan Bean on The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon.
His award-winning books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews and been praised in the New York Times and USA Today.
Anthony and Frederick Douglass, Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing, and Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women\'s Right to Vote.
With back matter that includes photos of the NASA mission, images of Alan\'s paintings, and a timeline of lunar space travel, this is one adventure readers won\'t want to miss About the Author Dean Robbins is a journalist and the author of the children\'s picture books Two Friends: Susan B.
Journalist and storyteller Dean Robbins\'s tale of this extraordinary Astronaut is masterful, and artist Sean Rubin\'s illustrations are whimsical and unexpected.
Alan\'s paintings allowed humanity to experience what it truly felt like to walk on the moon.
When he returned to Earth, he began to paint what he saw.
He took dozens of pictures, but none compared to what he saw through his artistic eyes.
In 1969, Alan became the fourth man and first artist on the moon.
But no class could prepare him for the beauty of the lunar surface some 240, 000 miles from Earth.
So he took an art class to learn patterns and forms.
As a young navy pilot, Alan wished he could paint the view from the cockpit.
Description Journey to the moon on the Apollo 12 mission with Alan Bean, the fourth Astronaut to walk on the lunar surface and the only artist to paint its beauty firsthand As a boy, Alan wanted to fly planes
