
Over the past 35 years, I have published poems, reviews, essays, many filmstrips and videos, and more than 40 children's picture books. Born and raised in Chicago, I graduated from DePauw University (Greencastle, Indiana) and later received an MA in humanities from the University of Chicago. I've published books for children since the early 1990s. My books - including numerous unpublished ones! - run a broad gamut, from stories geared for pre-schoolers to survival stories and biographies aimed at seven to eleven-year-olds. My work is wide-ranging because, basically, I'm a generalist by experience - and inclination! In addition to writing, I paint regularly under the art name Burleigh Kronquist and have shown work in one-person and group shows in Chicago, New York, and elsewhere around the country. -from robertburleigh.com
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2023
2023
Winslow Homer Paints the Sea
2021
2021
A Hummingbird's Amazing Journey
2020
2019
Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War
2019
The Story of Paris's Beloved Bookstore and Its Founder
2018
2018
Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
2016
A Whale's Rescue
2015
2014
Sounds of Things That Go in the City
2014
2012
2012
2012
Painter with a Punch!
2012
2011
Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
2011
Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer
2010
Listen to the City
2009
2009
2009
The Pigeon Who Saved the Lost Battalion
2008
2008
The Story of the Little Corporal
2007
Jackie Robinson: Against the Odds
2007
A Painter's Journey
2006
Tenzing Norgay: The Boy Whose Dream Was Everest
2006
The Moulin Rouge and the City of Light
2005
2004
Scenes from American History
2004
Connecting the Dots
2004
John James Audubon Lives His Dream
2003
2002
2002
2002
2001
2001
2001
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1999
1999
Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic
1998
1997
The Story of Babe Ruth
1995
1991
1985