Robert Burleigh

Robert Burleigh has written a number of bestselling children’s books—including O Captain, My Captain; Hit the Road, Jack; and George Bellows, Painter with a Punch!—that have received multiple starred reviews and awards, including the Orbis Pictus, Texas Bluebonnet Master List, CCBC Choices, and an ALA Notable. He lives outside Chicago.

Robert Burleigh's Titles

Ice Bears at Ice Edge A Picture Book

Ice Bears at Ice Edge

From writer Robert Burleigh and illustrator Wendell Minor, an award-winning and bestselling picture book team, comes a gripping climate change–themed...


O Captain, My Captain Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War

O Captain, My Captain

Dramatic, lyrical, and beautifully illustrated, author Robert Burleigh and artist Sterling Hundley's picture book O Captain, My Captain tells...


Hit the Road, Jack

Hit the Road, Jack

In this delightful picture book, loosely inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, a scat-singing, bebopping jackrabbit travels across the United...


George Bellows Painter with a Punch!

George Bellows

No punches are pulled in this fascinating biography that covers the life and work of the prolific artist George Bellows. Having spent most of...