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    Sammy the Seal
    Sammy the Seal
    Sammy the Seal
    Audiobook9 minutes

    Sammy the Seal

    Written by Syd Hoff

    Narrated by Lewis Grosso

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    About this audiobook

    Sammy, the adventurous seal, leaves the zoo for the day and ventures into the big, busy city. Along the way he finds a school full of kids and new things to do—and he even learns to read!

    ""So funny and so original that it promises to be one of the most successful books in this best-selling series."" (Publishers Weekly)

    Sammy the Seal is another hilarious, original story by Syd Hoff, the celebrated author of Danny and the Dinosaur. This classic Level One I Can Read is perfect for shared reading with a child. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 24, 2015
    ISBN9780062409553
    Sammy the Seal
    Author

    Syd Hoff

    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.

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    • 4/5
      Sammy is bored in the zoo and wants to see the world. And being a good seal, the zookeeper lets him.Cute children's book found at a library sale.
    • 3/5
      This book could be used to motivate children to like school. Sammy the Seal leaves the zoo to enjoy school for a day. The children will think school is fun because Sammy the Seal thought so. This would be a book for the lower levels of elementary education.
    • 3/5
      Good story for a early reader the story is a little long for a child just starting to read, however it is a cute story and the pictures help you understand the story.
    • 2/5
      Read this while shopping for other things in Barnes & Noble. Sweet enough message that there's no place like home, but kinda strange, that for the seal, that he prefers the zoo! I know, I know, it's fiction, but it just struck me as odd today. Some other day, and I might have felt more sappy and sentimental about this story.
    • 5/5
      This story is both Fantasy as Sammy the Seal talks and people hear him and he goes to school. It is also Historical Fiction as it is fiction that was written over 50 years. The setting has a very clear time and place of a big city in the late 60's. You can mostly see this through the illustrations.
    • 3/5
      Sammy the Seal by Syd Hoff is about a seal who needs a break from zoo. So the zookeeper gives him the day off. Sammy heads into to town, meets all sorts of folks and ends up at a school, where he learns to read!It's a silly premise, the what if being a zoo animal is a job like anything an adult human might do. There was a year long anime series that had the same premise: Polar Bear Café which had characters who either worked at the zoo or at other jobs around town.There's just something endearing about animals and people living together — animals working side by side as salarymen.
    • 3/5
      Sammy the seal likes life at the zoo, but he wants to see what things are like outside. He enjoys himself, especially at school, but in the end he is happy to go home to the zoo.
    • 3/5
      This book is about the seal`s adventure story. His name is "Sammy". He is interested in outside. But he belongs a zoo. He wants to go out.I thik this book is easy to read and interesting. I enjoyed reading this book.
    • 4/5
      This story about anxious to see what life is like outside the zoo,Sammy the seal exploves the city,goes to school,and plays with the children but decides that there really is no place like home.I like it.pictures are cute and Sammy is funny.All of people around him are very kind.I think this is the heartwarming story!