Syd Hoff

At Tablet, Sarah Lazarovic presents a nice graphic tribute to author and illustrator Syd Hoff, whose centenary is being celebrated this year. I only remember Hoff's Danny and the Dinosaur from my own childhood, but Maddie loved his books when she first started reading, regularly bringing them home from the library and later picking up quite a few at garage sales. His artwork has a wonderfully simple quality (as Lazarovic references in the panel above), and is quite distinctive - I can now easily pick out his books on sight, before even reading his name.