Tuesday Kidlit Trivia for June 24, 2024 This high school drop out wrote one of the most popular early readers ever, but he began his career as a cartoonist with two comic strips, "Tuffy" and "Laugh It Off." When his young daughter needed therapy for a bad hip. he made her a series of drawings of a boy and a dinosaur to take her mind off her treatment. These were the basis for his 1958 early reader, Danny and the Dinosaur, and many credit this book for sparking kids' interest in dinosaurs. His simple drawings complimented the simple text perfectly, and he went on to create other books for kids learning to read, such as Sammy, the Seal, Julius, and Chester, about a carousel horse. This is Syd Hoff, who was born in New York in 1912, and died in Miami at the age of 91.
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