When the dinosaur finds the children, he says, 'Here I am!'. His idea (for the dinosaur) is to 'pretend to not find him'. In the last part of the game, Danny hatches an idea to make the game slightly harder. The children find the dinosaur several times, but then there is no place else for him to hide in the neighborhood. The children and the dinosaur take turns hiding.

Finally, they end with a game called hide and seek. Then, Danny and the children all play with the dinosaur throughout the day. The other children get to ride the dinosaur too. Pretty soon, Danny meets with his friends. As a result, the zoo man asked Danny and the dinosaur to leave so the zoo animals could be looked at. Nobody else stayed to see the lions, elephants, monkeys, seals, giraffes, or hippos because they came to see the dinosaur instead. The dinosaur is also a celebrity, as the illustrations show hundreds of people leave the zoo to see Danny and the dinosaur. The dinosaur is well-intentioned throughout the story, for he helps a lady cross the street, takes Danny across a river and lets the children use him as a slide. Both agree to play with each other, and Danny rides out of the museum on the dinosaur's neck. One of the dinosaurs come up to Danny and says, 'And I think it would be nice to play with you'. Then he says he thinks it would be nice to play with one. The dinosaurs in the dinosaur exhibit are really models and not real. Finally, he immediately gets drawn to the dinosaur exhibit and would be delighted to find a living dinosaur. He sees Indians, bears, Eskimos, guns, and swords. The story opens up with a young boy named Danny going to a science museum. The story spawned an animated short in 1990 by Weston Woods. The idea for Danny and the Dinosaur came when Hoff began drawing for one of his daughters, who, at the time, was going through a physical therapy. Danny and the Dinosaur is designated as an I Can Read! Book.

The book inspired six other sequels by Syd Hoff. It has sold over ten million copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. Danny and the Dinosaur is a children's picture book by Syd Hoff, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1958.

Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff