{{short description|American writer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL|dateformat=mdy}}
'''Adam Rubin''' is a #1 New York Times best selling author of children's books.<ref>{{cite web |title=Adam Rubin, author of the new children's book "High Five," hands out some high-fives on "GMA." |url=https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/video/celebrate-national-high-day-62480623 |website=Good Morning America |access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref> Many of his stories feature animals or food<ref>{{cite news |last1=Paul |first1=Pamela |title=The Old Man and the Squirrels: The Third 'Darn Squirrels' Book by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/books/the-third-darn-squirrels-book-by-adam-rubin-and-daniel-salmieri.html |work=New York Times |date=12 September 2012 |access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref> and several contain interactive elements.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Rachel |title='High Five' Readers Invited To Participate In Secret Tournament |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/04/30/718546506/high-five-readers-invited-to-participate-in-secret-tournament |website=NPR |publisher=Morning Edition |access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref> His books have sold over one million copies.<ref>{{cite web |title=PENGUIN YOUNG READERS ACQUIRES SEQUEL TO NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PICTURE BOOK, 'DRAGONS LOVE TACOS' |url=https://www.cbcbooks.org/2016/08/02/penguin-young-readers-acquires-sequel-to-new-york-times-bestselling-picture-book-dragons-love-tacos/ |website=The Children's Book Council |date=2 August 2016 |access-date=24 May 2019}}</ref> Rubin graduated from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis where he studied visual communications<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adam Rubin, BFA in Communication Design ’05 |url=https://samfoxschool.washu.edu/people/alumni-spotlights/14-adam-rubin-bfa-in-communication-design-05 |access-date=2026-01-24 |website=Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts — Washington University in St. Louis |language=en}}</ref> and worked as an advertising creative director for ten years before leaving his day job to focus on writing books.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Diaz |first1=Anne-Christine |title=ART OF PLAY CAPTURES MAGIC IN ACTION IN ITS WHIMSICAL BRAND FILM |url=https://adage.com/creativity/work/art-play-look-inside-art-plays-secret-showroom/957071 |website=Ad Age |access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref> Adam also has a background in Improv where he taught classes at iO Theater in Chicago and in New York at the Annoyance Theatre.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chopovsky |first1=Max |title=Adam Rubin - Moral of the Story |url=https://mospod.org/episodes/adam-rubin}}</ref> In addition to writing and improv, he also curates and designs puzzles and magic tricks.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Frauenfelder|first1=Mark |title=Interview with Adam Rubin, director of puzzles and games for The Art of Play |url=https://boingboing.net/2017/08/10/interview-with-adam-rubin-dir.html |website=Boing Boing |access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref>
== Select bibliography == * ''The Human Kaboom'', illustrated by Daniel Salmieri, Gracey Zhang, Rodolfo Montalvo, Daniel Gray-Barnett, Marta Altés, and Adam De Souza (Penguin, 2023) {{isbn|9780593462393}} * ''Ice Cream Machine'', illustrated by Daniel Salmieri, Charles Santoso, Liniers, Emily Hughes, Nicole Miles, and Seaerra Miller (Penguin, 2022) {{oclc|1251766374}}, {{isbn|9780593325797}} * ''High Five'', illustrated by Daniel Salmieri (Penguin, 2019) {{isbn|9780525428893}} * ''El Chupacabras'', illustrated by Crash McCreery (Penguin, 2018) {{isbn|9780399539299}} * ''Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel'', illustrated by Daniel Salmieri (Penguin, 2017) {{isbn|9780525428886}} * ''Robo-Sauce'', illustrated by Daniel Salmieri (Penguin, 2015) {{isbn|9780525428879}} * ''Big Bad Bubble'', illustrated by Daniel Salmieri (Houghton Mifflin, 2014) {{isbn|9780544045491}} * ''Secret Pizza Party'', illustrated by Daniel Salmieri (Penguin, 2013) {{isbn|9780803739475}} * ''Dragons Love Tacos'', illustrated by Daniel Salmieri (Penguin, 2012) {{isbn|9780803736801}} * ''Those Darn Squirrels Fly South'', illustrated by Daniel Salmieri (Houghton Mifflin, 2012) {{isbn|9780547678238}} * ''Those Darn Squirrels and the Cat Next Door'', illustrated by Daniel Salmieri (Houghton Mifflin, 2011) {{isbn|9780547429229}} * ''Those Darn Squirrels'', illustrated by Daniel Salmieri (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) {{oclc|181424019}}, {{isbn|9780547007038}}
==Awards and honors==
* 2020 – Texas Bluebonnet Award (winner)<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://txla.org/news/the-2020-texas-bluebonnet-award-winner-is/ | title=The 2020 Texas Bluebonnet Award Winner Is...| date=2020-02-10}}</ref> * 2018 – The E.B. White Read Aloud Award (honoree)<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bookweb.org/news/2018-indies-choice-and-eb-white-read-aloud-award-winners-announced-104285 | title=2018 Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud Award Winners Announced| date=2018-05-09}}</ref>
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