Author: Syd Hoff
Narrator: Dan Bittner
Unabridged: 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 02/24/2015
Categories: Children's Fiction, Beginner Readers, Animal Stories
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. Born and raised in New York City, he studied at the National Academy of Design. His cartoons were a regular feature in the New Yorker after he sold his first cartoon to that magazine at the age of eighteen. His work also appeared in many other magazines, including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, and in a nationally syndicated daily feature.
Learn about an old-time peddler (Barney) and his horse, living in a city at a time of great change, technological change, as in screeches sounding from an overhead train. In New York City, where I grew up, folks consider these trains to be part of the subway system, elevated trains. As in an "El." I'v......more
This is an easy reader with illustrations of back when horse-drawn wagons were common and trains were new in towns. The vegetable peddler and his horse Barney made daily trips to towns and Barney was loved by the children in each place they went. The day a train was ready for passengers, poor Barney......more