Book Awards & Distinctions
for Robert Burleigh
30 Total Book Awards
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor (7)
Best STEM Books, 2017-2025
Selection, 2017
Cook Prize, 2012-2024
Honor, 2017
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Science Selection, 2016
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
Environment, Energy, Ecology Selection, 2017
Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2017
Look Up!: Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer (5)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2014
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Science Selection, 2013
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
Biography Selection, 2014
Edward Hopper Paints His World (3)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Biography Selection, 2014
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
Biography Selection, 2015
George Bellows: Painter with a Punch! (2)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2013
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013
Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth (2)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 1999
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998
Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic (2)
O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War (2)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2019
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
Biography Selection, 2020
Flight (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1991
Hi, I'm Norman: The Story of American Illustrator Norman Rockwell (1)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Arts Selection, 2019
One Giant Leap (1)
Seurat and La Grande Jatte: Connecting the Dots (1)
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2005
Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson: Against the Odds (1)
Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay: The Boy Whose Dream Was Everest (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2007