Before leaving for our camp at Kitty Hawk we tested the chain drive for the propellers in our shop at Dayton, and found it satisfactory.

Child psychologist and writer                          

Selected Works:

A Study in Courage and Fear, Volume 1 of Children of Crisis - 1967
Dead End School, with illustrations by Norman Rockwell - 1968
The Image Is You, children's photos organized by Donald Erceg with text by Coles - 1969
Still Hungry in America, with photos by Al Clayton - 1969
Erik H. Erikson: the Growth of His Work - 1970
Uprooted Children: The Early Life of Migrant Farm Workers - 1970
Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers, Volume 2 of Children of Crisis - 1971
The South Goes North, Volume 3 of Children of Crisis - 1971
The Middle Americans; Proud and Uncertain, with photos by Jon Erikson - 1971
Farewell to the South - 1972
The Buses Roll, with photos by Carol Baldwin and Peter T. Whitney - 1974
William Carlos Williams: The knack of survival in America - 1975
The Mind's Fate: Ways of Seeing Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis - 1975
Eskimos, Indians, Chicanos, Volume 4 of Children of Crisis - 1977
The Privileged Ones: The Well-off and the Rich in America, Volume 5 of Children of Crisis - 1977
A Festering Sweetness: Poems of American People - 1978
The Last and First Eskimos, with photos by Alex Harris - 1978
Women of Crisis: Lives of struggle and hope, with Jane Hallowell Coles - 1978
Walker Percy: An American Search - 1979
Flannery O'Connor's South - 1980
I Will Always Stay Me: Writings of Migrant Children, edited by Sherry Kafka and Robert Coles - 1982
Photographs of a Lifetime, photos by Dorothea Lange with an essay by Coles - 1982
The Moral Life of Children - 1986
The Political Life of Children - 1986
Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion - 1987
Simone Weil; A Modern Pilgrimage - Diary: Reflections of the Sacred and the Secular - 1988
Times of Surrender: Selected Essays - 1988
The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination - 1989
Rumors of Separate Worlds: Poems - 1989
The Spiritual Life of Children - 1990
Anna Freud: The Dream of Psychoanalysis - 1992
Their Eyes Meeting the World: The Drawings and Paintings of Children, edited by Margaret Sartor - 1992
The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism - 1993
The Story of Ruby Bridges, illustrated by George Ford  - 1995
Doing Documentary Work - 1997
The Moral Intelligence of Children - 1997
Old and On Their Own, with photos by Alex Harris and Thomas Roma - 1997
The Youngest Parents: Teenage pregnancy as it shapes lives, with Robert E. Coles, Daniel A. Coles, Michael H. Coles, and photos by Jocelyn Lee and John Moses - 1997
The Secular Mind - 1999
The Erik Erikson Reader, selected and edited by Coles - 2000
Lives of Moral Leadership - 2000
Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology, edited by Robert Coles, Randy Testa, and Michael Coles - 2001
A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology, edited by Coles and Randy Testa - 2002
When They Were Young: A photographic restrospective of childhood from the Library of Congress - 2002
Bruce Springsteen's America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing - 2003
Teaching Stories: An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature, selected by Coles - 2004
Minding the Store: Great Writing About Business from Tolstoy to Now, edited by Coles and Albert LaFarge - 2008
Steve Lehman The Tibetans: A Struggle to Survive, pgs. 14-15, Introduction by Coles - 1998
Steve Lehman, Mark Bailey, and Rory Kennedy, American Hollow,pgs. 6-7, Foreword by Coles - 1999                          

Mother Sandra Young
Father Philip Coles