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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 My books - including numerous unpublished ones!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
1985
2008
Scenes from American History
2004
Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic
1998
Winslow Homer Paints the Sea
2021
2002
Listen to the City
2009
2000
2014
1991
2012
The Pigeon Who Saved the Lost Battalion
2008
Painter with a Punch!
2012
2001
2009
1999
2019
2012
The Story of Babe Ruth
1995
1997
2001
2023
2012
John James Audubon Lives His Dream
2003
1999
2004
Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer
2010
2001
2000
The Story of the Little Corporal
2007
Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
2011
2018
Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War
2019
2009
2002
A Painter's Journey
2006
Connecting the Dots
2004
Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
2016
Jackie Robinson: Against the Odds
2007
The Story of Paris's Beloved Bookstore and Its Founder
2018
2011
2023
2002
Tenzing Norgay: The Boy Whose Dream Was Everest
2006
A Hummingbird's Amazing Journey
2020
The Moulin Rouge and the City of Light
2005
A Whale's Rescue
2015
2021
Sounds of Things That Go in the City
2014