Put Me in the Zoo

Category:Groiler Beginner Book Series
Category:The Big Blue Book of Beginner Books
Category:Big Bright and Early Board Books
Category:Beginner Books Read-Along and Cassettes
Put Me in the Zoo is a 1960 Beginner Book written and illustrated by Robert Lopshire. This 100-word vocabulary story features an unidentified spotted animal who wants to go to the zoo, but is too silly to stay there.
== Story ==
The book begins with an unidentified spotted animal going to the zoo. He wants to stay there, but the zookeepers kick him out for being such a nonsense animal. A couple of kids ask why the animal should be in the zoo and how he is useful. He shows them by changing his spots' color from red to blue, and then to orange and green and violet and finally multicolored.
The animal shows the kids what he can do with his spots; he can put them on anything, including the kids. He can also make them appear and disappear, and also make them small and very tall, and make them one big spot.
The animal can also make spot socks, and also make them fly into the air, and eventually they end up buried in a pile of spots. The kids claim they like they things the animal can do, but because he doesn't belong in the zoo, they show him a circus. The spotted animal thinks he likes it in the circus.
== Trivia ==
* The Cat in the Hat makes a cameo among the circus spectators.
== Anniversary editions ==
* 60th Anniversary (2020): All that year, every print of the book featured a "60th Anniversary" sticker on the cover.