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Syd Hoff (September 4, 1912 in New York City - May 12, 2004) was a Jewish-American children’s book author and cartoonist.
Syd 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.
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. He drew two long-running syndicated comic strips: Tuffy (1932-1957) and Laugh It Off (1958-1978). He was also the host of a television show, Tales of Hoff, in which he drew and told stories.
Children's books
- Mr. His: a Children's Story for Anybody (New Masses, 1939)
- Muscles and Brains (Dial Press, 1940)
- Mom, I'm Home! (Doubleday/Doran & Co., 1945)
- Oops! Wrong Party! (Dutton, 1951)
- It's Fun Learning Cartooning (Stravon Publishers, 1952)
- Oops! Wrong Stateroom! (Washburn, 1953)
- Out of Gas (Ives Washburn, 1954)
- Eight Little Artists (Abelard-Schuman,
- Patty's Pet (Young Readers Press, 1955)
- Danny and the Dinosaur series (Harper & Row, 1958—1996)
- Danny and the Dinosaur (1958)
- Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur (1985)
- Danny and the Dinosaur Go to Camp (1996)
- Chester (Harper & Row, 1959)
- Julius (Harper & Row, 1959)
- Sammy the Seal (Harper & Row, 1959)
- Ogluk the Eskimo (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960)
- Oliver (Harper & Row, 1960)
- Where's Prancer? (Harper & Brothers, 1960)
- Who Will Be My Friends? (Harper & Row, 1960)
- Albert the Albatross (Harper & Row, 1961)
- Little Chief (Harper & Row, 1961)
- Stanley (Harper & Row, 1962)
- Grizzwold (Reader's Digest Services, 1963)
- Lengthy (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964)
- Mrs. Switch (Putnam, 1966)
- Irving and Me (Harper & Row, 1967) ... for young adults; no illustrations
- Jeffrey at Camp (Putnam, 1968)
- Slithers (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968)
- Wanda's Wand (C. R. Gibson Co., 1968)
- The Witch, the Cat, and the Baseball Bat (Grosset & Dunlap, 1968)
- Baseball Mouse (Putnam, 1969)
- Herschel the Hero (Putnam, 1969)
- Roberto and the Bull (McGraw-Hill, 1969)
- The Horse in Harry's Room (Harper & Row, 1970)
- A Walk Past Ellen's House (McGraw-Hill, 1973) ISBN 0437470199
- Barkley (Harper & Row, )
- Henrietta series (Garrard Pub. Co., 1977—1985)
- Henrietta Lays Some Eggs (1977)
- Henrietta, Circus Star (1978)
- Henrietta, the Early Bird (1978)
- Henrietta Goes to the Fair (1979)
- Henrietta's Halloween (1980)
- Henrietta's Fourth of July (1981)
- Happy Birthday, Henrietta! (1983)
- Henrietta's Vacation (1985)
- Walpole (Harper & Row, 1977)
- The Young Cartoonist, The ABC's of Cartooning (Stravon, 1983)
- Barney's Horse (Harper & Row, 1987)
- Mrs. Brice's Mice (Harper & Row, 1988)
- Captain Cat (Harper Collins, 1993)
Books for adults
- Naval Secrets: This Book is Filled with Man-to-Man Ideas and Aids to Help you Record Your Bang-up Navy Experiences (Hillair Publishing Company, 1943)
- Military Secrets: This Book is Filled with Man-to-Man Ideas and Aids to Help you Record Your Bang-up Army Experiences (Hillair Publishing Company, 1943)
- Feeling No Pain: an Album of Cartoons (Dial Press, 1944)
- Okay...You Can Look Now! (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1955)
- The Better Hoff (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961)
- Upstream, Downstream and Out of My Mind (Bobbs-Merrill, 1961)
- Twixt the Cup and the Lipton (Bobbs-Merrill, 1962)
- So This is Matrimony: Cartoons (Pocket Books, 1962)
- Hunting, Anyone? (Bobbs-Merrill, 1963)
- From Bed to Nurse, or, What a Way to Die (Dell, 1963)
Total Books: 288