Adam Rubin's Reality is Subjective

First Draft Episode #342: Adam Rubin

Adam Rubin, New York Times bestselling picture book author known for Dragons Love Tacos, Those Darn Squirrels!, Robo-Sauce and more with illustrator Daniel Salmieri, about his new collection of middle grade short stories, The Ice Cream Machine.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• “Weird Al” Yankovic

• Monty Python

• Mr. Bean

• The Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson (find the first collection, The Far Side, here)

• Calvin and Hobbes, cartoon by Bill Watterson (check out the first collection, Calvin and Hobbes)

• Klutz Books, like Juggling For the Complete Klutz, created by John Cassidy

• Exploratorium books like The Art of Curiosity

• Upright Citizens Brigade

• Improv Olympic

• Leo Burnett advertising agency

• Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Children’s Literature and New York Times bestselling author best known for picture books with illustrator Lane Smith, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and more. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Good Night, Good Night Construction Site

• Adam and Dan’s Robo-Sauce video

• High Five by Adam Rubin and illustrated by Daniel Salmieri

• Gladys the Magic Chicken by Adam Rex illustrator Adam Rex

• El Chupacabras by Adam Rubin with illustrator Crash McCreery

• Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park

• Kurt Vonnegut (author of Slaughterhouse Five and more) lecture about The Shapes of Stories

• Illustrator Charles Santoso

• Cartoonist Liniers

• Illustrator Emily Hughes

• Illustrator Nicole Miles

• Seaerra Miller, illustrator

• Improvise: Scene From the Inside Out by Nick Napier

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• Jon Klassen, Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the I Want My Hat Back series, who is back with a book he wrote and illustrated: The Rock From the Sky.

• Ben Zhu, author, illustrator, and founder of Gallery Nucleus, talks about his debut picture book, Dessert Island.

• Oliver Jeffers, visual artist, climate activist, and author and/or illustrator of several New York Times bestselling picture books, including The Day the Crayons Quit, How to Catch a Star, The Fate of Fausto, and Here We Are, joins us to talk about his newest picture book, There’s a Ghost In This House.

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