About Robert

Robert Sams holds two bachelor’s degrees, one in zoology and one in communications. This means he can talk to animals . . .whether they understand him is another question.

He is a filmmaker and photographer, who has taken his cameras underwater and above ground from the Micronesian islands to the Great Lakes of Michigan.

He is an author and educator, sharing his enthusiasm with thousands of children at assemblies each year. He is also a performer and musician.

In The Riddle in a Bottle, he is a very enthusiastic member of The Riddle Solvers.  He also stars as the singing, one-legged pirate and the very sleepy Father Time.  And if you listen carefully, you'll hear is voices in most of the wildlife stories, including children's favorites: the hunting eel, the munching muskrat and the overly-excited tide pool fish.

In Stranger in the Woods: The Movie, he is the voice of a raspy singing squirrel and the voice of Pierre, a snowdrift with a bad French accent.

In Lost in the Woods, he sings like a lounge-singing tree frog. He has recently been spotted as Father Time and as a singing, one-legged pirate.

He also plays the guitar and has very expressive eyebrows.

But who is he really? Read an essay Laura wrote about him.