Chester
By (Author) Syd Hoff
Illustrated by Syd Hoff
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins
27th January 2015
United States
Children
Fiction
Educational: First / native language: Readers and reading schemes
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Ponies, horses and related animals
Picture storybooks: imagination and play
Paperback
64
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 5mm
122g
Chester, a wild horse who wants to be tame, comes to the city looking for a home. Reading for fun: the artists sense of pacing makes this book race along. Saturday Review.
Syd Hoff was born and raised in New York City. He studied at the National Academy of Design and sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker when he was eighteen. He eventually became one of the most original and beloved authors and illustrators of children's books. Mr. Hoff wrote more than fifty books for children, including the I Can Read titles Danny and the Dinosaur, Oliver, and Sammy the Seal.