Among Mrs. Brice''s 25 mice, all but one do everything
together. And this mouse''s difference ''comes in handy when the mice
meet a cat, and while twelve run this way and twelve run that, this
mouse runs this way and that, wearing out the cat and saving them
all. The simple, gracefully repetitive text and bright drawings
will make a preschool hero of the clever little mouse.
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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.