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Robert Kraus (1) [1925–2001]

This page covers the author of Leo the Late Bloomer.

For other authors named Robert Kraus, see the disambiguation page.

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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 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)
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Leo the Late Bloomer 3,123 copies, 46 reviews
Whose Mouse Are You? 1,028 copies, 16 reviews
Herman the Helper 382 copies, 4 reviews
How Spider Saved Halloween 356 copies, 1 review
How Spider Saved Valentine's Day 231 copies
Milton the Early Riser 187 copies, 1 review
Little Louie the Baby Bloomer 181 copies, 1 review
How Spider Saved Easter 167 copies
Come Out and Play, Little Mouse 160 copies, 1 review
Spider's First Day at School 155 copies, 1 review
Where Are You Going, Little Mouse? 151 copies, 2 reviews
Mouse In Love 122 copies, 1 review
How Spider Saved Thanksgiving 116 copies
How Spider Stopped the Litterbugs 109 copies
Another Mouse to Feed 108 copies, 1 review
Jack O'Lantern's Scary Halloween 107 copies, 2 reviews
The Christmas Cookie Sprinkle Snitcher 87 copies, 4 reviews
Phil the Ventriloquist (Author) 84 copies
How Spider Saved Santa Bug 80 copies
How Spider Saved the Baseball Game 79 copies, 1 review
Littlest Rabbit 78 copies, 3 reviews
Spider's Baby-Sitting Job 73 copies
All My Chickens 71 copies
How Spider Saved the Flea Circus 70 copies
Owliver 63 copies, 4 reviews
Musical Max 59 copies, 1 review
Bunya the Witch 57 copies, 1 review
Wise Old Owl's Halloween Adventure 56 copies
How Spider Saved Christmas 55 copies
Big Squeak, Little Squeak 48 copies, 1 review
Fables Aesop Never Wrote 36 copies, 3 reviews
The Making of Monkey King 35 copies, 4 reviews
The Adventures of Wise Old Owl 35 copies
Noel the Coward 34 copies, 1 review
Good Morning- Miss Gator 34 copies
Mort The Sport 32 copies, 15 reviews
Dr. Mouse, Bungle Jungle Doctor 28 copies, 1 review
Near Myths: Dug Up and Dusted Off 28 copies, 2 reviews
The Bunny's Nutshell Library 24 copies, 1 review
Ella the Bad Speller (Silver Seedling Easy Reader) 23 copies, 1 review
Wise Old Owl's Christmas Adventure 21 copies, 1 review
Wise Old Owl's Canoe Trip Adventure 21 copies
Dance Spider Dance (Road to Reading) 19 copies
Strudwick 18 copies
The gondolier of Venice 17 copies
Mert the Blurt 16 copies, 1 review
Good-night, Richard Rabbit 15 copies
Boris Bad Enough 15 copies, 1 review
I'm a monkey 13 copies
Pinchpenny Mouse 13 copies, 1 review
I, Mouse 13 copies
Springfellow's Parade 12 copies
Bunny's Nutshell Library: The First Robin 12 copies
Here Comes Tardy Toad (Miss Gator's Schoolhouse) 12 copies
The Tree That Stayed Up Until Next Christmas 11 copies
The Detective of London 10 copies
Daddy Long Ears 10 copies
The Good Mousekeeper 10 copies
Screamy Mimi 10 copies
Bunny's Nutshell Library: Juniper 9 copies
Klunky Monkey, New Kid in Class (Miss Gator's Schoolhouse Series) 9 copies
Jack Galaxy Space Cop 8 copies
Three Friends 8 copies, 1 review
Daddy Long Ears' Halloween 8 copies
Mouse Work 8 copies
Good Night Little ABC 7 copies, 1 review
The night-lite storybook 7 copies
Tail Who Wagged the Dog 7 copies
The little giant 7 copies
Ludwig the Dog Who Snored Symphonies 7 copies
Springfellow 6 copies, 1 review
The Boogie Woogie Bears Go Back to Nature 6 copies
Buggy Bear Cleans Up (Miss Gator's Schoolhouse) 6 copies
The Trouble with Spider 6 copies
Bunny's Nutshell Library: The Silver Dandelion 6 copies
Mummy Vanishes: A Mummy Dearest Creepy Hollow Whoooooooodunnit? 5 copies
Spider's Draw-A-Long Book 5 copies
Good Night Richard Rabbit / Good Night Little A.B.C. 5 copies
Mummy Knows Best: A Mummy Dearest Creepy Hollow Whoooooooodunnit 5 copies
Good night, little one (Night-lite library) 5 copies
Amanda remembers 5 copies, 1 review
Squirmy's Big Secret (Miss Gator's Schoolhouse Series) 5 copies
Spider's Hometown 5 copies
The Old-Fashioned Raggedy Ann & Andy ABC Book 4 copies
Along Came Duck 4 copies
The King's Trousers 4 copies
Mrs. Elmo of Elephant House 4 copies
Phantom of Creepy Hollow: A Mummy Dearest Creepy Hollow Whoooooooodunnit? 4 copies
All the mice came (A Windmill paperback) 4 copies
Mouse at sea 4 copies
Daddy Long Ears' Christmas Surprise 4 copies
Private Eyes Don't Blink: A Mummy Dearest Creepy Hollow… 4 copies
See The Moon; A Glow-In-The-Dark Book 3 copies
How Spider Saved Turkey 3 copies
Miranda's Beautiful Dream 3 copies
A Box of Brownies 3 copies
Ladybug, Ladybug! 3 copies
Animal Families (Windmill Board Book) 3 copies
The Rabbit Brothers 3 copies
Milton the Early Riser Takes a Trip 3 copies
The Boogie Woogie Bears' Picnic 3 copies
Penguin's Pal 3 copies
The Mixed-Up Mice Clean House (Warner Early Reader) 3 copies
Kittens for Nothing 3 copies
STICKERS N SHAPES LITTLE BEEP 2 copies
Hoodwinking of Mrs. Elmo 2 copies
STICKERS N SHAPES TINY TOW TRUCK (Stickers 'n' Shapes) 2 copies
The Mixed-Up Mice in the Big Birthday Mix-Up (Warner Early Reader) 2 copies
Whitney Darrow, Jr's Unidentified Flying Elephant 2 copies
You Can Count on Brownies (Windmill Little Library) 2 copies
Junior, The Spoiled Cat 2 copies
miss old owl's christmas adventure 1 copy
Musical Max - DVD 1 copy
See the Christmas Lights, a Glow-In-The-Dark Board Book 1 copy
The Little Rabbit 1 copy
My Son, The Mouse. 1 copy
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KRAUS, Robert
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1925-07-21
Date of death
2001-08-21
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Place of death
Kent, Connecticut, USA
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Connecticut, USA
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Art Students League, Manhattan, New York, USA
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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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