Christian Robinson Limited Edition Reading is Resistance Print

To kick off our print series where children’s book creators respond to the prompt, “Reading is Resistance,” Chrisitian Robinson created an image of Nana and CJ reading on a bus.
 
Christian wrote on his Substack, "I was so excited when The Rabbit Hole invited me to design a print with the theme “Reading is Resistance.” The first thought that came to mind was a line from one of my picture books, Last Stop on Market Street. The author Matt de la Peña writes, 'They sat right up front'

This feels like a subtle but intentional move on Matt’s part to invoke a bit of history. It only made sense to use an image of Nana and CJ, doing two things that were once illegal, and acts of resistance, for Black people in the US — reading, and choosing to sit in the front of the bus."
 
Throughout the coming year, visiting children’s book creators will be invited to respond to the prompt: “Reading is Resistance”. In collaboration with The Rabbit hOle’s Print Shop, we will create a limited run of signed prints which we will sell at events and in our bookstore, Lucky Rabbit Books.