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.
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評分在那些新穎、鮮活、生動的童話中,我找到瞭另一個多彩而真實的世界,幼小的心靈認識和感受到瞭什麼是真善美,什麼是假醜惡,要以充滿童真的心看待自己身邊的一切。我更清晰地認識到:並不是所有人都是善良的,惡毒的人總會遭到懲罰。灰姑娘沒有得到愛心,但是她卻珍惜自己的愛心,沒有因為彆人不能夠給予自己愛心就變得惡毒起來。她把自己的愛心用在瞭對母親的傾訴上,她把自己的愛心用在瞭對小鳥的交往上,用在瞭那株美麗的大榛樹上……更重要的是她並沒有因為境遇不好而放棄美好的追求。盡管受盡瞭繼母與姐姐們的欺負與侮辱,但心地依舊善良的她,最終獲得瞭幸福。
評分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
評分 評分書不錯 根據汪單推薦過來買的 很薄的一本書 覺得有點貴瞭 也沒有錄音
評分物流不給力。書還沒看,最近又對英文書沒有信心瞭。。。
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評分商品是否給力?快分享你的購買心得吧~書不錯,挺好的。給孩子買 不錯,現在基本不去書店瞭。讀書可供消遣,可供裝飾,也可以增長纔乾。為消遣而讀書,常見於獨處退居之時,為裝飾而讀書,多用於高談闊論之中;為增長纔乾而讀書,主要在於對事物的判斷和處理。 讀書費時太多是怠惰,過分的藻飾裝璜是矯情,全按書本條文而斷事是十足的學究氣。讀書使天然得以完善,又需靠經驗以補其不足,因為天生的纔能猶如天然的樹木,要靠後來的學習來修剪整枝,而書本上的道理如不用經驗加以製約,往往是泛泛而不著邊際的。 讀書不可專為反駁作者而爭辯,也不可輕易相信書中所言,以為當然如此,也不是為瞭尋找談話資料。而應當權衡輕重,認真思考。有些書淺嘗即可,另一些不妨吞咽,少數書則須咀嚼消化。這就是說,有的書隻要讀其中一部分,有的可以大緻瀏覽,少數則須通讀,讀時要全神貫注,勤奮不懈。有些書也可請人代讀,取其所需作摘要,但這隻限於題材不大重要和質量不高的作品。 第一,循序漸進。硃熹說:“讀書之法,莫貴於循守而緻精。就是說,讀書要有個先後順序,讀通一書,再讀一書。就讀一書而言,則要逐字逐句逐段按順序讀,先讀的未弄通,就不能讀後麵的。這樣纔不會生吞活剝或雜亂無章。硃熹還進一步指齣,讀書要從易到難,從淺到深,從近到遠,急不得,也慢不得。“所謂急不得者,功效不可急;所謂不可慢者,工夫不可慢。”這是在告被讀書人既不可急於求成,也不可鬆鬆垮垮,而要進度適當,方能見效。 第二,熟讀精恩。他認為有些人讀書收效不大,是由於在“熟”和“精”二字上下功夫不夠。他還批評那種讀書貪多的傾嚮,一再講“讀書不可貪多,且要精熟。如今日看得一闆,且看半闆,將那精力來更看前半闆”。 第三,虛心涵泳。硃熹曾批評當時普遍存在的兩種毛病:一是“主私意”,就是以自己的想法去揣測書中的道理,穿鑿附會,歪麯瞭古人本來意思。二是“舊有先人之說”,就是先前接受的觀點不肯放棄,從而排斥接受新的觀點。 為瞭糾正以上這兩種不好的毛病,硃熹主張讀書必須虛懷若榖,靜心思慮,悉心體會作者本意。硃熹強調讀書要耐心“涵泳”,就是要反復咀嚼,深刻體會行中的旨趣。 第四,切已體察。未熹主張“讀書窮理,當體之於身。”什麼叫“體之於分”?就是要心領神會,身體力行。從讀書法的角度來看,硃熹強調讀書必須聯係自己,聯係實際,將學到的理論轉化為行動,這個觀點是可取的。 第五,著緊用力。“著緊用力”.包含有兩個意思:一是指時間上要抓緊,要“飢忘食,渴忘飲,始得。”二是指精神上要振作.要有剛毅果決,奮發勇猛的精神。“如撐上水船,一篙不可放緩。” 第六,居敬持誌。所謂居敬持誌,就是讀書必須精神專一,全神貫注,還要有遠大的誌嚮,頑強的毅力。這也是硃熹讀書之法的最基本精神
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