Robert Lopshire


Robert Lopshire is best known for his popular children's book Put Me In the Zoo.

Life and career

Lopshire was born in Sarasota, Florida. He attended the city's elementary and high schools. Lophsire served in the Navy Coast Guard during World War II in the Pacific theater aboard assault landing ships.
Lopshire is best known for being an author, illustrator, and for a short time early in his career, the creative art director for Beginner Books. He wrote the best selling children's book, Put Me in the Zoo, published in 1960.

As author and illustrator

Put Me in the Zoo I Want to Be Somebody New! – a sequel to Put Me in the Zoo/I Want To Be Somebody New!New Tricks I Can Do!Put Me in the Alphabet!I Want to Count Something New! The Biggest, Smallest, Fastest, Tallest Things You've Ever Heard ofI Am Better Than YouABC GamesIt's MagicA Beginner's Guide to Building & Flying Model AirplanesHow to make Snop Snappers & Other Fine Things
  • ''The Beginner Book of Things to Make: Fun Stuff You Can Make all by Yourself''

As illustrator

Ann Can Fly by Fred Phleger Wish Again, Big Bear by Richard MargolisLittle New Kangaroo by Bernard WisemanThe Pig War by Betty BakerBig Max by Kin PlattBig Max in the Mystery of the Missing Moose by Kin Platt

With others / collections