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.’ —BL.

Syd Hoff (September 4, 1912 Bronx, New York – May 12, 2004) wasa Jewish-American cartoonist and children's book author. Althoughbest known for his classic early reader Danny and the Dinosaur, hiscartoons appeared in a multitude of genres, including advertisingcommissions for such companies as Eveready Batteries, Jell-O, S.O.SPads, Rambler, Ralston Cereal and more.
While Hoff was still in high school, Milt Gross, a popular 1930scartoonist, told him at an assembly that "Kid, someday you'll be agreat cartoonist!" At 16, he enrolled at the National Academy ofDesign in New York City. At 18, he sold his first cartoon to TheNew Yorker, and would sell a total of 571 of them to thepublication from 1931 to 1975. Hoff became known for his cartoons,in The New Yorker, depicting tenements and lower-middle class lifein the city.
Hoff drew two long-running syndicated comic strips: Tuffy(1939–1949) and Laugh It Off (1958–1978). One of Hoff's recurringcharacters, a walrus-mustached man, eventually appeared as thefather in his daily Tuffy, done for the King Features Syndicatefrom 1940 to 1950.
His cartoons have appeared in a variety of publicationsincluding, the New Yorker, Esquire, Look magazine. He was also thehost of a television show, Tales of Hoff, in which he drew and toldstories.
Hoff wrote and illustrated over 60 volumes in the HarperCollins"I Can Read" series for beginning readers, most notably Sammy theSeal and the popular Danny and the Dinosaur (1958), which sold 10million copies and has been translated into a dozen languages.
In 1976, Hoff edited and published Editorial and PoliticalCartooning: From Earlier Times to the Present, which contains over700 examples of works from the world's editorial and politicalcartoons.