Robert Kraus (1) (1925–2001)
Author of Leo the Late Bloomer
For other authors named Robert Kraus, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Robert Kraus was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 21, 1925. When he was 10-years-old, he won a cartoon contest staged by the Milwaukee Journal. He received a plaque and had his cartoon printed in the paper. Two years later, the newspaper hired him to produce a weekly cartoon called Public show more Nuisances. By the time he was 16-years-old, he was selling cartoons to magazines like Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post. He studied at Milwaukee's Layton Art School and the Art Students' League in New York. After selling a few cartoons to The New Yorker, he was hired by the magazine as a contract artist. He worked there for 15 years and created 21 covers. While there, he started writing and illustrating children's books. His books included All the Mice Came, Leo the Late Bloomer, and Whose Mouse Are You? He left The New Yorker in 1966 and founded Windmill Books. Within a year, the house had won a prestigious Caldecott Medal. After 20 years, he sold Windmill to Simon and Schuster. In 1983, he began a syndicated Sunday comic feature, called Zap! The Video Chap. He died of congestive heart failure on August 7, 2001 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Robert Kraus
Musical Max - DVD 1 copy
The Little Rabbit 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- KRAUS, Robert
- Birthdate
- 1925-07-21
- Date of death
- 2001-08-21
- Burial location
- Fairlawn Cemetery, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Place of death
- Kent, Connecticut, USA
- Places of residence
- Connecticut, USA
- Education
- Art Students League, Manhattan, New York, USA
- Occupations
- writer
illustrator
cartoonist
publisher - Organizations
- Windmill Books
- Short biography
- Robert Kraus was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where his first drawing appeared in the Milwaukee Journal when he was eleven years old. His cartoons appeared regularly in the New Yorker magazine until about five years ago when he started his own publishing company, Windmill Books. Mr. Kraus is the author-illustrator of forty children's books. Mr. Kraus lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons. [adapted from Leo the Late Bloomer (1971)]
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Whose Mouse Are You? (Stories to Go!) by Robert Kraus
Great for a read aloud with grades K and 1. The students really enjoyed the mouse becoming a hero, saving his family.
Jolly illustrations and solid rhymes in this hollyday tale of Sprinkle Theft and Redemption. Tired of The Grinch? Fly along with petty larcenist the Sprinkle Snatcher as he scoops up sprinkle from cookie baking familes. Find redemption as he returns the sprinkles and realizes Christmas is not about being greedy.
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- 5
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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