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, 2012-2025
Honor, 2017

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Science Selection, 2016

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
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, 2012-2025
Science Selection, 2013

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2014
Edward Hopper Paints His World (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2014

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2015
George Bellows: Painter with a Punch! (2)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2013

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013
Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth (2)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
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, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2019

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
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, 2012-2025
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