Robert Burch has been praised by "Atlanta Weekly" magazine as "the author of some of the finest, most satisfying books for young people to be written in the South in this century." Author of nineteen books for children, Burch is a three-time winner of the Georgia Children's Book Award, an honor bestowed by the schoolchildren of the state. His story "Queenie Peavy" is a winner of the Children's Literature Association's Phoenix Award.