Sunday, May 16, 2004
· posted at 10:54 PMSyd Hoff, the creator of classics like Danny the Dinosaur, passed away this weekend. While his were not the first books I read (my mom credits that honor to Berenstain Bears), I fondly remember sitting under the dining table (my reading haven) and feeling so excited that Sammy got to go to school and hoping that one day a seal would wander into my classroom too.