100 years of Syd Hoff.

There are a few ways to mark tomorrow's centenary of the late author-illustrator Syd Hoff (Danny and the Dinosaur, etc.):

• The exhibition "Syd Hoff: Finding Home" is on display at the Miami Beach Regional Library until October 1. Its curator, Dina Weinstein, wrote the article  "Are Syd Hoff's Books Jewish?".

• Hoff's niece, Carol Edmonston, has been working on an enhanced Web site featuring his life and work. It includes his children's books, advertising, cartoons, murals, and radical works under the pseudonym A. Redfield. Hoff also published short stories in periodicals such as Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, and Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine.

• Cartoonist Mike Lynch highlights on his blog a rather wonderful book, Collier Collects Its Wits (1941), which features self-portraits by cartoonists such as Hoff ("a citizen of the Bronx [since] 1912") and Charles Addams.

Happy birthday, Syd Hoff.

Author-artist Syd Hoff, best known for Danny and the Dinosaur (1958), was born today in New York City in 1912. The industrious Hoff also contributed cartoons to the New Yorker; wrote radical works under the pseudonym A. Redfield; penned short stories such as "Goodbye Sweethearts" (1964) and "The Memory Game" (1974) for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine; and illustrated other books, such as the children's mysteries The Rooftop Mystery (1968) and Don't Be My Valentine (1985) by Joan M. Lexau. He died in 2004.