Robert Burleigh

Told in rhyming text, a train speeds through the night, revealing the sights and colors along the way to its young and sleepy riders.

An account of Amelia Earhart's dangerous 1932 flight across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland, in which she survived bad weather and a malfunctioning airplane. Includes a brief biography of the aviator.

A rabbit named Jack travels across the United States in a story based on the life of author Jack Kerouac.

"It is March in the cold North. The long-gone sun is rising. Silvery ice glitters. Snow sparkles in the hazy glow. Two polar bears stand at ice edge: mother and cub. A mother polar bear and her cub are busy searching for food when suddenly, the ice they stand on breaks away-crack! Cut adrift, her cub is out of reach as the treacherous sea beings to carry him away. In she dives! Can they return to land safely? Simply told yet dramatic, and with realistic,...

Evocative verse and powerful illustrations combine in this dramatic survival story where human divers attempt to free a humpback whale entangled in crab nets. Endnotes detail the real-life event that inspired the book and offer information about humpbacks and the danger of whale rescues.

Illustrations and poetic text describe the movement and feel of the game of basketball.

Describes how Charles Lindbergh achieved the remarkable feat of flying nonstop and solo from New York to Paris in 1927.

Retells the story of the final, and most difficult, labor of Hercules, known as Heracles in Greek mythology, in which he must go to Underworld and bring back the three-headed dog, Cerberus.

"This illustrated biography shares the story of female scientist, Marie Tharp, a pioneering woman scientist and the first person to ever successfully map the ocean floor"--