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Robert Lopshire

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Life and career
Early years Career
Books
References

{{refimprove|date=March 2017}}{{Infobox writer
| birth_name = Robert M. Lopshire
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|4|14|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = {{nowrap|Sarasota, Florida, U.S.}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|5|4|1927|4|14|mf=yes}}
| death_place = Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
| years_active = 1959-2002
| occupation = Writer, illustrator
| genre = Children's literature
}}Robert Lopshire (April 14, 1927 – May 4, 2002) is best known for his popular children's book Put Me In the Zoo.^[1]

Life and career

Early years

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.

Career

Lopshire is best known for being an author, illustrator and creative art director (for a short time early on) for Beginner Books. He wrote the best selling children's book, Put Me in the Zoo.

Books

As Author and Illustrator

Put Me in the Zoo (his first writings)
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! (his final work before his death)
The Biggest, Smallest, Fastest, Tallest Things You've Ever Heard of
I Am Better Than You
ABC Games
It's Magic
A Beginner's Guide to Building & Flying Model Airplanes
How to make Snop Snappers & Other Fine Things
The Beginner Book of Things To Make: fun stuff you can make all by yourself (formerly published as "How to make Flibbers, etc: a book of things to make & do")
and others!

As Illustrator

Ann Can Fly by Fred Phleger (his first pictures)
Wish Again, Big Bear by Richard Margolis
Little New Kangaroo by Bernard Wiseman
The Pig War by Betty Baker
Big Max by Kin Platt
Big Max in the Mystery of the Missing Moose by Kin Platt

His work with his others is included in:

The Big Blue Book of Beginner Books (featuring "Put Me In The Zoo")
The Big Red Book of Beginner Books (featuring "I Want To Be Somebody New!")
The Big Aqua Book of Beginner Books (featuring "New Tricks I Can Do!" - his final work after his death on May 4th, 2002)

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Obituaries|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VkIgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1X8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6775%2C2098658|location=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|accessdate=March 4, 2017}}

5 : 1927 births|2002 deaths|American children's writers|American illustrators|People from Sarasota, Florida

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