Great condition for its age Has a whited out inscription inside front cover. His work also appeared in many other magazines, including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, and in a nationally syndicated daily feature. Vintage Childrens Book Sammy The Seal By Syd Hoff 1959 Hardcover Harper & Row. His cartoons were a regular feature in the New Yorker after he sold his first cartoon to that magazine at the age of eighteen. Born and raised in New York City, he studied at the National Academy of Design. You can buy Sammy the Seal at .įor more recommendations, please see the lists on our Early Readers page.Syd Hoff has given much pleasure to children everywhere as the author and illustrator of numerous children’s books, including the favorite I Can Read books Sammy the Seal, The Horse in Harry’s Room, and the Danny and the Dinosaur books. Sammy the Seal is another excellent beginning reader. Animal names like “giraffe” and “monkey” can be tricky, but each one is presented on its own page on which the animal is prominent in the illustration.You will probably have to help with some of the people’s names, like Mr. Once again, Hoff tells a good story with common beginning-reader words.
Sammy concludes that, “There’s no place like home.” He tells them he had fun, but that he belongs in the zoo.
The children hope Sammy will be back at school the next day. He learns to read and write, and gets to play ball with the children, something he’s quite good at. The teacher doesn’t notice him until she hears someone barking rather than singing. Syd Hoff has given much pleasure to children everywhere as the author and illustrator of numerous children’s books, including the favorite I Can Read books Sammy the Seal, The Horse in Harry’s Room, and the Danny and the Dinosaur books. Sammy sees a line of children going into school, and he joins them. Hoff’s sense of humor sneaks in here as well. Sammy sees some sights, and has a little adventure looking for water to swim in. Find a suitable book to enhance your animal and describe why the book is suitable and how it supports language development. He has been a good seal, so the zookeeper lets him go. Sammy the seal lives in the zoo, but he is sad because he wants to go see what it’s like outside. The plot is much like Danny and the Dinosaur.
Published in 1959, Sammy the Seal was the third book Syd Hoff wrote for the “I Can Read” series.
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