Barney is a street peddler who sells fruits and vegetables while
dispensing kindness and horseback rides to the children on his
route. Progress brings elevated trains to the area, resulting in
Barney''s horse running away before everyone adjusts to the changes.
Brightly colored illustrations depict clear action. A satisfying
story.
關於作者：
Syd Hoff September 4, 1912 Bronx, New York – May 12, 2004 was
a Jewish-American cartoonist and children''s book author. Although
best known for his classic early reader Danny and the Dinosaur, his
cartoons appeared in a multitude of genres, including advertising
commissions for such companies as Eveready Batteries, Jell-O, S.O.S
Pads, Rambler, Ralston Cereal and more.
While Hoff was still in high school, Milt Gross, a popular 1930s
cartoonist, told him at an assembly that "Kid, someday you''ll be a
great cartoonist!" At 16, he enrolled at the National Academy of
Design in New York City. At 18, he sold his first cartoon to The
New Yorker, and would sell a total of 571 of them to the
publication from 1931 to 1975. Hoff became known for his cartoons,
in The New Yorker, depicting tenements and lower-middle class life
in the city.
Hoff drew two long-running syndicated comic strips: Tuffy
1939–1949 and Laugh It Off 1958–1978. One of Hoff''s recurring
characters, a walrus-mustached man, eventually appeared as the
father in his daily Tuffy, done for the King Features Syndicate
from 1940 to 1950.
His cartoons have appeared in a variety of publications
including, the New Yorker, Esquire, Look magazine. He was also the
host of a television show, Tales of Hoff, in which he drew and told
stories.
Hoff wrote and illustrated over 60 volumes in the HarperCollins
"I Can Read" series for beginning readers, most notably Sammy the
Seal and the popular Danny and the Dinosaur 1958, which sold 10
million copies and has been translated into a dozen languages.
In 1976, Hoff edited and published Editorial and Political
Cartooning: From Earlier Times to the Present, which contains over
700 examples of works from the world''s editorial and political
cartoons.
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