Syd Hoff

I always wanted to work in the circus," said Oliver. "I could be a dancing elephant." But the circus already has ten elephants and they don't need another one. So, Oliver must find somewhere else to go.

A lost albatross has trouble finding someone who can direct him to the ocean.

A circus gorilla scares away the people who have come to see him, and when he tries to find them, he gets lost himself.

Freddy moves into a new town and must face teh problem of making friends. It's tough at first, but finally his skills in catch win him a place in the childrens' community.

Though he is used to the city streets, Barney's horse becomes frightened of the noisy new overhead trains.

When an old lighthouse keeper and his wife leave their seaside home, they find a way for their old friends, the seagulls, to find them.

Mrs. Brice has twenty-five mice and they all do everything together.

A cat makes friends with a soldier and learns about military life when he joins the army ; Controlled vocabulary.

Danny goes to the museum and finds a dinosaur who plays with him for the rest of the day.

There's a new bicycle exhibit at the museum, and Danny is inspired to learn how to a ride a bike-with help from his buddy the dinosaur, of course! But OUCH! From running over his friend's tail to falling off the bike, Danny learns it takes a lot of tries to learn something new. Readers first fell in love with Danny and his prehistoric pal in the I Can Read classic Danny and the Dinosaur, created by Syd Hoff in 1958. Now the popular pair is together...