Seuss Beginner Books series, also at Random House. When Lopshire was creative art director during the earlier stages of the Beginner Books series at Random House, his illustrations for Ann Can Fly, published in 1959, caught the eye of Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr.
After the war ended a year later, he worked as an illustrator in studios in Boston and Philadelphia, and was a member of the Illustrators Group in New York. Lopshire had his pilot's license by the age of 15 and after graduating from Sarasota High School, served aboard assault landing ships in the Pacific Theatre. "They said they had memorized many of them as young children and were now reading them to their own children." "The nurses brought in Bob's books for him to autograph during his last days at the hospital," his wife, Selma, said. Lopshire, 75, a resident of Gainesville, died May 4, 2002, of emphysema and congestive heart failure in the North Florida Regional Hospital there.He was born April 14, 1927, in Sarasota and graduated from Sarasota High School in 1944. More recently, I found Robert's obituary from the Herald Tribune. Put Me in the Zoo uses Dick, Jane and Spot and I won the bet." Suess) said that the old 'Dick, Jane and Spot' concept was horrible, and that no one could ever do anything more with the three-he bet me on this. Thirteen years after the it's publication, Lopshire explained how the book ( Put Me in the Zoo) came about: "I came to write my first book because, at the time, I was employed as creative art director on the 'Beginner Book' project at Random House, the first of the truly planned assaults on young minds." A while back, I was looking for information on him and 10 Engines was kind enough to send some back story along, including this quote. Lopshire, who passed away in 2002 and was best known for his book Put Me in the Zoo. In the digging, I uncovered this little jewel and thought I'd use it as an opportunity to give props to Mr.
Now that my son is of a certain age, I'm beginning to dig back in the archives of our collection and pull out books I bought years ago expressly for this era of his childhood. A Beginner's Guide to Building and Flying Model Airplanes
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