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Mr. Schwartz warned against trying to pass a poky driver ahead of you.

And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman!

Give a volunteer a smart, witty, only occasionally poky primer on the science of reading.

Landlords can make money from poky offices, shops and basements that are increasingly hard to rent out.

Today it is a poky little stream, bounded and half-buried, fouled with decades of industrial waste.

It made sense because people had poky dial-up connections at home and faster ones at work.

Compared with it, Tesla's "gigafactory" is a poky warehouse and St Peter's Basilica is a quaint parish church.

I have no idea what he actually does or what he's doing here in this poky little town.

Slightly too poky, the album nonetheless delights in its demonstration that reticence and catharsis are not mutually exclusive.

The collisions transferred huge amounts of energy to the poky photons, like a sledgehammer smashing golf balls into orbit.

And dusty, poky Truevine was so isolated that nobody ever heard what became of them, though they became famous.

It was poky and ponderous, with a drawn-out first half that too often stranded itself against narrative shoals.

"The leaders posed for photos in a rather poky room, saying little beyond pleasantries," read a White House pool report.

One leads to the poky bedroom Cleo shares with her friend, the cook (the only person with whom she speaks Mixtec).

It had long been the home of Turkish and Morroccan immigrants, of halal butchers and poky corner groceries smelling of cumin.

He works alone, without major financing or a staff, in a poky office in Shirahama, a sleepy beach town near Kyoto.

The Palace of Westminster is a maze of sticky-carpeted little bars, poky wood-lined offices and forgotten meeting rooms up twisting staircases.

After all, "Scotland, PA" takes place at a poky burger shack: a joint called Duncan's in the title Pennsylvania town (a real place).

Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 22006, 22006, in the poky little town of Monroeville, in southern Alabama, the youngest of four children.

But like other mobile platforms of the era, it lacked power and sophistication, designed for an era of poky PDAs and "pocket PC" devices.

When they arrive in a bleak post-war England, they are put up in poky boarding houses and perform in tiny theatres to thinning audiences.

The result is hundreds of paintings jammed together nonsensically, often in poky rooms, and the creepy feeling of a tycoon controlling you from the grave.

And AT&T's Edge network back on the original device was so poky that we frequently felt as if we were falling off an Edge.

In Brooklyn, I'd contort myself to fit in poky aisles, squeeze past other angry shoppers ... and find the store didn't have what I wanted anyway.

Meanwhile, the Buford Highway in Atlanta, once a poky road of car-repair shops dwindling into farmland, is now lined with restaurants from dozens of countries.

From the building's opening in 1930 until 1982, when a lobby in the museum's forecourt was built, visitors had to enter via a poky provisional access point.

It's because a radiator is made of big, poky chunks of metal that, even when not turned on and hot, will still jab ruthlessly into the sitter's ass.

That has attracted new residents: although the poky 40-square-metre apartments in the old blocks were sufficient for the post-war generation, modern Japanese families demand more space.

Little Wuba (as the beast is named) is precision-engineered for adorability — a squirmy, giggly, slick-skinned critter with four poky arms and a Chia Pet shock of hair.

No one emerges with any credit from the scandal that has landed Mr Ghosn, one of the world's highest-flying chief executives, in a poky jail cell in Tokyo.

Two years ago, says a longtime resident, the site of the mall was a swamp, and Mae Sot was a poky little border town with two small grocery stores.

Poky Feeders, which raises about 125,000 cattle on three feedlots in Kansas, changed its grain rations to be half wheat from all corn in July, said Chief Executive Joe Morgan.

All the pension funds, all your relatives — you heard of people who just traded tech stocks on their poky internet connection all day and said they were making a fortune.

If its silhouette is all you desire, a less expensive GT model (without the S) is due this fall with a $20,000 lower price, and it will hardly be poky.

IN RECENT weeks signs have appeared in the poky arrivals hall at Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, exhorting visitors to shun the dollar in the name of national sovereignty.

He and his wife struggle to feed their children and have fallen into debt with their landlord, who charges 2460,25 kyat a month for a poky room in a grimy bamboo hostel.

Here, instead of whizzing past rows of poky terraced houses en route to the big smoke each day, Rachel stares blurry-eyed at white-washed mansions that look more as if they belong on plantation land.

In a poky sex toy shop in Sanlitun shopping district in central Beijing, a placard with a QR code is strategically placed next to a pink, vein-knobbled dildo called the Super Emperor, and a clitoral pump.

And when I asked myself, inevitably, who these souls in the gallery were, I thought of a group of intensely creative people in a small community, living simply in poky garrets, watchful and sensitive, determined and focussed.

In Iowa, artists and musicians like Vampire Weekend and Foster the People, who were there to stump and play concerts for Sanders, were put up in poky rooms at the Hampton Inn near the Des Moines airport.

Why does her writer friend Ronnie find Bridge Cottage poky and squalid, with "a faintly fishy smell as if an aquarium bubbled there," when the real Ronald Blythe told Highsmith's biographer Andrew Wilson it was "very clean and comfortable, orderly and warm"?

Bells tinkle in mahogany doorways to sound a customer's arrival; swaths of checks, wool and herringbone from the finest mills in Britain are piled high; and cutters sit hunched in basements and poky back rooms to fulfill orders for wealthy clients around the world.

Snowden was, even at the zenith of his ascendant career, the IT guy, responsible for managing what he calls a "dopey poky" Microsoft system for document sharing called SharePoint but also building systems known as EpicShelter and Heartbeat that de-duplicated and shared information more efficiently between NSA offices.

It must be a real drag being Jason Derulo's girlfriend, waiting all day to enter his poky little bedroom where he lies like some drooling reptile, only for said bedroom to be invaded by a troupe of bearskin- hatted soldiers heralding the impending stiffening of Derulo's cock by blowing down phallic trumpets.

Although the G train has long been denigrated as poky and subpar — it's the only major line that doesn't go to Manhattan — improved service, along with overcrowded L trains, the growing popularity of alternatives like Citi Bike and Uber, as well as the rising number of people who work from home, has made living along it increasingly appealing, according to Chris Cavorti, an associate broker with the Corcoran Group.

When poky females were crossed to wild-type males, all progeny had the poky phenotype. When wild-type females were crossed to poky males, all progeny had the wild-type phenotype. That the poky determinant is only passed through the female line suggested that the determinant resides in the maternal cytoplasm. It was eventually shown that the primary defect in the poky mutants is a deletion in the mitochondrial DNA sequence encoding the small ribosomal RNA subunit.

Poky is a mutant of the fungus Neurospora crassa that has extranuclear inheritance. Poky is characterized by slow growth, a defect in mitochondrial ribosome assembly and deficiencies in several cytochromes. The studies of poky mutants were among the first to establish an extranuclear mitochondrial basis for inheritance of a particular genotype. It was initially found, using genetic crosses, that poky is maternally inherited.

A well studied example of uniparental inheritance involves the poky mutants of Neurospora crassa. The original poky mutant was isolated by Mitchell and Mitchell in 1952 as a spontaneously occurring slow growing variant. In genetic crosses, the poky phenotype was found to be maternally inherited. The protoperithecial parent is regarded as the female (maternal) parent in Neurospora.

Currently distributions such as Android, Angstrom, and Poky are supported on this platform.

A Christmas special, The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas, aired on Showtime on December 13, 1992.

The Poky Little Puppy is a children's book written by Janette Sebring Lowrey and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. It was first published in 1942 as one of the first twelve books in the Simon & Schuster series Little Golden Books. The copyright was renewed in October 1969. The Poky Little Puppy is a story about five puppies of undetermined breed.

Subsequently, the primary defect in the poky mutants was determined to be a deletion in the mitochondrial DNA sequence encoding the small subunit of mitochondrial ribosomal RNA.

Poky and Friends is a series of animated videos and books produced by Varga TVC Productions and Golden Books Family Entertainment that ran from 1998 until 2003.

The Poky Little Puppy then eats the rice pudding that the mother was planning to give all the puppies but withheld because of the fence-digging incident. Not knowing that he is going to be punished, he secretly eats up the rice pudding and crawls into bed happy as a lark. This pattern then repeats itself, only with chocolate custard for dessert instead of rice pudding. Once again, the Poky Little Puppy avoids punishment while everyone else is asleep.

Back at Harbortown, Beamer looks out at the storm clouds on the horizon, and along with the big ships, is starting to worry whether Scuffy and his friends will make it back in time. Up in the mountains, Tootle takes his friends into Cavetown Tunnel, where he becomes frightened by the bats, but nevertheless makes it through. Outside, they meet up with Poky Little Puppy, Saggy Baggy Elephant, and Scuffy, only to find Shy Little Kitten has gone missing. In order to find Shy Little Kitten, Poky Little Puppy follows her footprints and eventually finds her and her new friend, Baby Brown Bear.

It is a spinoff of classic Little Golden Books characters (The Poky Little Puppy, The Shy Little Kitten, etc.), just like the animated special Little Golden Book Land, although the series featured different character designs for the characters to fit the animated series.

Little Golden Books is a series of children's books, founded in 1942. The eighth book in the series, The Poky Little Puppy, is the top-selling children's book of all time.. Many of the Little Golden Books have become bestsellers, including The Poky Little Puppy, Tootle, Scuffy the Tugboat, and The Little Red Hen. Several of the illustrators for the Little Golden Books later became influential within the children's book industry, including Corinne Malvern, Tibor Gergely, Gustaf Tenggren, Feodor Rojankovsky, Richard Scarry, Eloise Wilkin, and Garth Williams. Many books in the Little Golden Books series deal with nature, science, Bible stories, nursery rhymes, and fairy tales.

The Poky Little Puppy (1942). Tenggren gave up his Rackham-esque fairy tale illustration style after he left Disney in 1940. Although his work for Disney was still in the Rackham fairy- tale illustration style, after he left the studio he never painted that way again. From 1942 to 1962, Tenggren worked for Little Golden Books with illustrations for children's books such as Saggy Baggy Elephant, Tawny Scrawny Lion, The Shy Little Kitten, Little Black Sambo, and The Poky Little Puppy, which became the single all-time best-selling hardcover children's book in English; and "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table," Emma Gelders Sterne's retelling of the Arthurian Legend.

Instead of following his siblings when they all sneak out to play (although their mother has warned them that they can go out and play; but never dig holes under the fences so they can go to other yards), the title character lags behind to observe other things. In the beginning, his independence is rewarded. The puppies had all dug a hole underneath the fence to escape from their yard (instead of playing in their own backyard), but only the Poky Little Puppy's siblings are caught. The Poky Little Puppy avoids punishment because he is away exploring as his mother scolds his siblings, and he comes home alone after everyone is asleep.

The Ångström distribution is a Linux distribution for a variety of embedded devices. The distribution is the result of work by developers from the OpenZaurus, OpenEmbedded, and OpenSIMpad projects. The graphical user interfaces (GUIs) available are OPIE and GPE among other options. The Ångström distribution is in "competition" with Poky Linux.

Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film "gets by if you don't mind an essentially passive, poky approach to adventure", and called the accompanying featurette Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too "a livelier and more amusing film."Arnold, Gary (December 26, 1974). "Tame Adventure for Preschoolers". The Washington Post. B15.

The eighth book in the series, The Poky Little Puppy, is the top selling children's book of all time.Diane Roback, editor; compiled by Debbie Hochman Turvey. "All-Time Bestselling Children's Books: A listing of hardcovers that have sold 750,000 copies and paperbacks that have topped the one million copy mark over the years," Publishers Weekly (Dec 17, 2001).

The Poky Little Puppy was the single all- time best-selling hardcover children's book in the U.S., having sold nearly 15 million copies. While the book has outsold many other famous books such as Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham, Lowrey herself (who also wrote stories about children in her home state of Texas) remained in relative obscurity until her death.

Pocatello High School is a four-year public high school in Pocatello, Idaho, United States, locally known as "Poky". It is the oldest of the three traditional high schools of the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District, and serves the southwest portion. The school colors are red and blue and the mascot is an Indian; the city's namesake, Chief Pocatello, was the leader of the Shoshone people.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2 out of 4 stars, praising the lead actors, particularly Newman "steals every scene he's in", but criticized the contrived ending. Todd McCarthy from The Hollywood Reporter called it a "dreary, lachrymose and incredibly poky tear-jerker" but conceded it had a built in audience among those who put the book on the bestseller list.

The big ships laugh at him for such a thought. Beamer orders them to stop it, but Scuffy is determined to prove that a little tugboat like him can do big things. Later, Scuffy meets up with his friends, Tootle, Katy Caboose, Poky Little Puppy, and Shy Little Kitten, and explains the problem. Despite their fears about getting into trouble, they agree to help Scuffy fix the breakwater.

Scuffy outraces the hungry crocodiles, but goes over a waterfall and meets up with Saggy Baggy Elephant. Saggy Baggy Elephant also finds Poky Little Puppy (who went out to look for Scuffy) hiding in a pile of leaves. Meanwhile, Tootle, Katy Caboose, and Shy Little Kitten have come to the Rabbits' house where Tawny Scrawny Lion is hanging out with his rabbit friends. After getting tossed out of the hammock, Tawny Scrawny Lion agrees to help.

After Katy Caboose points out they need a big rock and not a carrot, Tawny Scrawny Lion offers to come with his friends to Cavetown to protect them. But from what? Meanwhile, Poky Little Puppy and Scuffy have told Saggy Baggy Elephant about the breakwater, and Saggy Baggy Elephant also agrees to help. He offers them his coconuts, but after Scuffy points out they need a rock, Saggy Baggy Elephant takes his friends along a path to Cavetown.

Janette Sebring Lowrey was born in Orange, Texas. Lowrey wrote dozens of books aimed at children and young adults from the 1930s to the 1970s, but The Poky Little Puppy remains her best known, selling over 15 million copies worldwide. Another well-known work of hers was Margaret, a historical fiction young adult novel, which was published in 1950. It was adapted into Walt Disney Presents: Annette, a TV serial that aired on The Mickey Mouse Club in 1958.

Nostalgia holds a 39% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 54 reviews, with a weighted average of 5.36/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Nostalgia combines talented actors and honorable intentions, but poky pacing and a lack of depth make it unlikely the end result will ever inspire the titular emotion." On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 47 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Tootle then slams on his brakes and sends everything flying out of his train Poky Little Puppy, Shy Little Kitten, Tawny Scrawny Lion, Saggy Baggy Elephant, and Baby Brown Bear land on the mattresses, and Scuffy lands back in the water. The big rock lands squarely in the hole in the breakwater, plugging it up and preventing Harbortown from being flooded. Eventually, the storm passes and the Golden Sun shines down again. Then everybody holds a party for Scuffy, hosted by Beamer.

Corinne Malvern #The Alphabet from A to Z, by Leah Gale, illus. Vivienne Blake and Richard Peck #The Poky Little Puppy, by Janette Sebring Lowrey, illus. Gustaf Tenggren #The Golden Book of Fairy Tales, by Winfield Scott Hoskins #Baby's Book of Objects #The Animals of Farmer Jones, by Leah Gale, illus. Richard Scarry #This Little Piggy and Other Counting Rhymes, by Phyllis Cerf Wagner, illus. Roberta Harris Pfafflin Petty Three editions totaling 1.5 million books sold out within five months of publication in 1942.

He eats up the chocolate custard withheld because of the fence digging incident. Again, not knowing he is going to be punished, he secretly eats up it too, and again crawls into bed happy as a lark. Only at the end of the book does fate catch up with the Poky Little Puppy. When the puppies are sent to bed without dessert a third time (this time being strawberry shortcake), they wait until they think their mother is sleeping, then sneak out of bed and fill in the hole they'd dug under the fence.

While working with Mirabilis jalapa, Correns observed that leaf colour was dependent only on the genotype of the maternal parent. Based on these data, he determined that the trait was transmitted through a character present in the cytoplasm of the ovule. Later research by Ruth Sager and others identified DNA present in chloroplasts as being responsible for the unusual inheritance pattern observed. Work on the poky strain of the mould Neurospora crassa begun by Mary and Hershel Mitchell ultimately led to the discovery of genetic material in the mitochondria, the mitochondrial DNA.

Pumping house (or bumping) is an intermediate term and a local variant of the early scouse house scene, which was popular Russia and Spain in the late 1990s to early 2000s. The genre takes start when the Dutch duo Klubbheads invented so called bamboo-bass in the track Ultimate Seduction - "A Walking Nightmare (Klubbheads GP Mix)" in 1997. Years later the genre gave the birth to Britain's donk scene and Spain scene poky. Pumping house is used as an interchangeable term for scouse house in Russia and Spain.

However, there have been few occasions where Jones has shown doubt and even mistrust towards Mainwaring. Notably in the episode "The King was in His Counting House", Jones disdains Mainwaring's claim that his father was a renowned tailor and member of "The Master Tailors' Guild", by revealing that Mainwaring's father merely owned a "poky little drapery shop up a side alley" and sold poor-quality workman's trousers. His main rivalries are with Frazer, and the Verger, whom he often calls a troublemaker. On informal occasions, Jones is often accompanied by Mrs Fox, his love-interest.

The original farmhouse was enlarged and modified during their ownership, including the addition of the stepped gables, a Scottish baronial genuflection to the land of their fathers. By the time of the sale to Churchill, it was, in the words of Oliver Garnett, author of the 2008 guidebook to the house, an example of "Victorian architecture at its least attractive, a ponderous red-brick country mansion of tile-hung gables and poky oriel windows". Tilden, in his "highly unreliable" memoirs, True Remembrances, wrote of "creating Chartwell out of the drabness of Victorian umbrageousness".

On its original airing, Associated Press writer Kathryn Baker deemed the Nutcracker special "Strictly for those who prefer jelly beans to Christmas dinner." In 1991, Chris Hicks of Utah's Deseret News gave it 1½ stars out of four, commenting that "Even my young children find this one too saccharine". The special is mentioned in Craig Nelson's Bad TV: The Very Best of the Very Worst, in a section entitled "The Curse of the Top Five Annual Christmas Specials" (along with those based on The Smurfs and The Poky Little Puppy).

It was very much a shoestring operation; as Helen O'Brien later recalled, "there was an atmosphere of extreme poverty and undertones of a grim conspiracy over all. At 163 Holland Park Avenue was an ill-lit lecture room and a bare-boarded and poky office some eight by ten feet—mainly infested by long haired men and short haired and tatty women."O'Brien, p. 49 On September 24, 1952, only a few weeks after arriving in London, Hubbard's wife Mary Sue gave birth to her first child, a daughter whom they named Diana Meredith de Wolfe Hubbard.

August 20, 1998. At that point, nearly 15 million copies of The Poky Little Puppy had been sold, including copies in various languages. In 2015, with the release of Little Golden Book adaptations of the first six installments of the Star Wars saga on August 25, the Little Golden Book adaptation of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith became the first- ever Little Golden Book in history to come from a film that was rated PG-13 by the MPAA. Months later, on April 12, 2016, a Little Golden Book adaptation of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the next film in the saga, also rated PG-13, was released.

Titles from this series included a long-lasting electronic chip that played music when readers open those books. Songs featured in this series range from popular children's songs such as Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, to songs from children's TV and movies including People in Your Neighborhood from Sesame Street and Heigh-Ho from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In the year 2000, Encore Software produced a series of "Little Golden Books" titles for CD ROM, including The Poky Little Puppy, Mother Goose, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Velveteen Rabbit, Tootle, and The Saggy Baggy Elephant. These six individual titles were some of the first major software releases to be produced entirely in Macromedia Flash.

Dense, meandering, ambitious yet jarringly pulpy, this tale of big-city corruption in small-town America has competence without mood or power—a design but not a vision". In her review for the Washington Post, Rita Kempley wrote, "With its redundancy of supporting characters, snarled subplots and poky pace, Cop Land really might have been better off trading the director for a traffic cop". Rolling Stone magazine's Peter Travers praised Stallone's performance: "His performance builds slowly but achieves a stunning payoff when Freddy decides to clean up his town ... Freddy awakes to his own potential, and it's exhilarating to watch the character and the actor revive in unison. Nearly down for the count in the movie ring, Stallone isn't just back in the fight.

This led John Vanbrugh to joke that the Duchess had "the direction in chief to herself, with Sir Christopher Wren as her Deputy Surveyor." Eventually she dismissed the Wrens and took control of the design herself. In 1727, Sarah's political rival Sir Robert Walpole purchased the lot between Marlborough House and Pall Mall through his protégé Thomas Ripley, reputedly to deny the Duchess a direct entrance onto Pall Mall. Wren had designed and built a gateway arch and screen in the front courtyard with this entrance in mind, which survives as a grotto. Still intent on an entrance from Pall Mall, in 1729 the Duchess leased four houses to the west and had them demolished to create a "poky" diagonal entrance.

The Yocto Project has the aim and objective of attempting to improve the lives of developers of customized Linux systems supporting the ARM, MIPS, PowerPC and x86/x86-64 architectures. A key part of this is the OpenEmbedded build system, which enables developers to create their own Linux distribution specific to their environment. The Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded Project share maintainership of the main parts of the OpenEmbedded build system: the build engine, BitBake, and the core metadata, OpenEmbedded-Core. The Yocto Project provides a reference implementation called Poky, which contains the OpenEmbedded build system plus a large set of recipes, arranged in a hierarchical system of layers, that can be used as a fully functional template for a customized embedded operating system.

She had a tight 15–14 win in the table of 32 against 17-year-old Alona Komarov of Israel. Her later bouts were easier victories and she eventually earned the gold after defeating Italia's Francesca Quondamcarlo 15–11 in the final. In the team event she led a largely renewed Romanian side, now nicknamed ”Poky Power”, scoring the decisive hit in the 44–43 quarter-final against Sweden; Romania then disposed of Hungary, but failed against Estonia in the final and came away with a silver medal. During the 2013 World Fencing Championships in Budapest, Brânză made her way comfortably to the table of eight, but she was defeated in a tight 14–15 bout by Estonia's Julia Beljajeva, who eventually won the competition.

The architects, Heatherwick Studio, aimed to conserve and celebrate the original structure's industrial heritage, while simultaneously excavating large open spaces from the 42 densely-packed concrete cylinders from which it was comprised. Using a variety of concrete-cutting techniques, the interior of the building was carved out to create a number of galleries and a large central atrium. Disagreements between the architects and director Mark Coetzee over the number of galleries that the museum had to contain ended in what South African art critic Sean O'Toole has described as "poky, low-ceilinged galleries, which often struggle to hold or reflect the ambition of the exhibiting artists". The remaining concrete shafts were capped with strengthened glass in order to allow natural light to enter and create a "cathedral-like" interior.

Charleston Exposition, 1901/02 Track of the miniature railway at the Charleston Exposition At the Charleston Exposition from December 1, 1901 to June 20, 1902 the lilliputian railways installed by the Miniature Railway Co. comprised one of the most popular attractions and best-paying amusement features on the grounds. The routes touched all points of interest from the Sunken Gardens and the Court of Palaces to the hoky-poky dance floor in the headquarters. Patrons found these baby trains an indispensable convenience as well as a joyful novelty in the manner of transportation. The outfit consisted of a locomotive and tender, with a total length or , weighing , and cars long and wide, weighing each, all as complete in detail and as business-like in aspect as a transcontinental express.

Many of the books were bestsellers, including The Poky Little Puppy, Tootle, Scuffy the Tugboat, and The Little Red Hen. Several of the illustrators for the Little Golden Books later became staples within the picture book industry. Corinne Malvern, Tibor Gergely, Gustaf Tenggren, Feodor Rojankovsky, Richard Scarry, Eloise Wilkin, and Garth Williams. In 1947 Goodnight Moon, written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd, was published. By 1955, such picture book classics as Make Way for Ducklings, The Little House, Curious George, and Eloise, had all been published. In 1955 the first book was published in the Miffy series by Dutch author and illustrator Dick Bruna. In 1937, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), at the time a successful graphic artist and humorist, published his first book for children, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. It was immediately successful, and Seuss followed up with The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins in 1938, followed by The King's Stilts in 1939, and Horton Hatches the Egg in 1940, all published by Random House.

Mr. Schwartz warned against trying to pass a poky driver ahead of you. from The New York Times
And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman! from The New York Times
Give a volunteer a smart, witty, only occasionally poky primer on the science of reading. from The New York Times
Landlords can make money from poky offices, shops and basements that are increasingly hard to rent out. from Economist
Today it is a poky little stream, bounded and half-buried, fouled with decades of industrial waste. from Economist
It made sense because people had poky dial-up connections at home and faster ones at work. from CNN
Compared with it, Tesla's "gigafactory" is a poky warehouse and St Peter's Basilica is a quaint parish church. from Economist
I have no idea what he actually does or what he's doing here in this poky little town. from Refinery 29
Slightly too poky, the album nonetheless delights in its demonstration that reticence and catharsis are not mutually exclusive. from Hyperallergic
The collisions transferred huge amounts of energy to the poky photons, like a sledgehammer smashing golf balls into orbit. from Wired
And dusty, poky Truevine was so isolated that nobody ever heard what became of them, though they became famous. from The New York Times
It was poky and ponderous, with a drawn-out first half that too often stranded itself against narrative shoals. from Vox
"The leaders posed for photos in a rather poky room, saying little beyond pleasantries," read a White House pool report. from Mashable
One leads to the poky bedroom Cleo shares with her friend, the cook (the only person with whom she speaks Mixtec). from Economist
It had long been the home of Turkish and Morroccan immigrants, of halal butchers and poky corner groceries smelling of cumin. from The New York Times
He works alone, without major financing or a staff, in a poky office in Shirahama, a sleepy beach town near Kyoto. from Vice
The Palace of Westminster is a maze of sticky-carpeted little bars, poky wood-lined offices and forgotten meeting rooms up twisting staircases. from Economist
After all, "Scotland, PA" takes place at a poky burger shack: a joint called Duncan's in the title Pennsylvania town (a real place). from The New York Times
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 22006, 22006, in the poky little town of Monroeville, in southern Alabama, the youngest of four children. from The New York Times
But like other mobile platforms of the era, it lacked power and sophistication, designed for an era of poky PDAs and "pocket PC" devices. from Vox
When they arrive in a bleak post-war England, they are put up in poky boarding houses and perform in tiny theatres to thinning audiences. from Economist
The result is hundreds of paintings jammed together nonsensically, often in poky rooms, and the creepy feeling of a tycoon controlling you from the grave. from Economist
And AT&T's Edge network back on the original device was so poky that we frequently felt as if we were falling off an Edge. from CNBC
In Brooklyn, I'd contort myself to fit in poky aisles, squeeze past other angry shoppers ... and find the store didn't have what I wanted anyway. from Business Insider
Meanwhile, the Buford Highway in Atlanta, once a poky road of car-repair shops dwindling into farmland, is now lined with restaurants from dozens of countries. from Economist
From the building's opening in 1930 until 1982, when a lobby in the museum's forecourt was built, visitors had to enter via a poky provisional access point. from Economist
It's because a radiator is made of big, poky chunks of metal that, even when not turned on and hot, will still jab ruthlessly into the sitter's ass. from Vox
That has attracted new residents: although the poky 40-square-metre apartments in the old blocks were sufficient for the post-war generation, modern Japanese families demand more space. from Economist
Little Wuba (as the beast is named) is precision-engineered for adorability — a squirmy, giggly, slick-skinned critter with four poky arms and a Chia Pet shock of hair. from The New York Times
No one emerges with any credit from the scandal that has landed Mr Ghosn, one of the world's highest-flying chief executives, in a poky jail cell in Tokyo. from Economist
Two years ago, says a longtime resident, the site of the mall was a swamp, and Mae Sot was a poky little border town with two small grocery stores. from Economist
Poky Feeders, which raises about 125,000 cattle on three feedlots in Kansas, changed its grain rations to be half wheat from all corn in July, said Chief Executive Joe Morgan. from CNBC
All the pension funds, all your relatives — you heard of people who just traded tech stocks on their poky internet connection all day and said they were making a fortune. from TechCrunch
If its silhouette is all you desire, a less expensive GT model (without the S) is due this fall with a $20,000 lower price, and it will hardly be poky. from The New York Times
IN RECENT weeks signs have appeared in the poky arrivals hall at Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, exhorting visitors to shun the dollar in the name of national sovereignty. from Economist
He and his wife struggle to feed their children and have fallen into debt with their landlord, who charges 2460,25 kyat a month for a poky room in a grimy bamboo hostel. from Economist
Here, instead of whizzing past rows of poky terraced houses en route to the big smoke each day, Rachel stares blurry-eyed at white-washed mansions that look more as if they belong on plantation land. from Economist
In a poky sex toy shop in Sanlitun shopping district in central Beijing, a placard with a QR code is strategically placed next to a pink, vein-knobbled dildo called the Super Emperor, and a clitoral pump. from Vice
And when I asked myself, inevitably, who these souls in the gallery were, I thought of a group of intensely creative people in a small community, living simply in poky garrets, watchful and sensitive, determined and focussed. from New Yorker
In Iowa, artists and musicians like Vampire Weekend and Foster the People, who were there to stump and play concerts for Sanders, were put up in poky rooms at the Hampton Inn near the Des Moines airport. from Vice News
Why does her writer friend Ronnie find Bridge Cottage poky and squalid, with "a faintly fishy smell as if an aquarium bubbled there," when the real Ronald Blythe told Highsmith's biographer Andrew Wilson it was "very clean and comfortable, orderly and warm"? from The New York Times
Bells tinkle in mahogany doorways to sound a customer's arrival; swaths of checks, wool and herringbone from the finest mills in Britain are piled high; and cutters sit hunched in basements and poky back rooms to fulfill orders for wealthy clients around the world. from The New York Times
Snowden was, even at the zenith of his ascendant career, the IT guy, responsible for managing what he calls a "dopey poky" Microsoft system for document sharing called SharePoint but also building systems known as EpicShelter and Heartbeat that de-duplicated and shared information more efficiently between NSA offices. from Wired
It must be a real drag being Jason Derulo's girlfriend, waiting all day to enter his poky little bedroom where he lies like some drooling reptile, only for said bedroom to be invaded by a troupe of bearskin- hatted soldiers heralding the impending stiffening of Derulo's cock by blowing down phallic trumpets. from Vice
Although the G train has long been denigrated as poky and subpar — it's the only major line that doesn't go to Manhattan — improved service, along with overcrowded L trains, the growing popularity of alternatives like Citi Bike and Uber, as well as the rising number of people who work from home, has made living along it increasingly appealing, according to Chris Cavorti, an associate broker with the Corcoran Group. from The New York Times
When poky females were crossed to wild-type males, all progeny had the poky phenotype. When wild-type females were crossed to poky males, all progeny had the wild-type phenotype. That the poky determinant is only passed through the female line suggested that the determinant resides in the maternal cytoplasm. It was eventually shown that the primary defect in the poky mutants is a deletion in the mitochondrial DNA sequence encoding the small ribosomal RNA subunit.
Poky is a mutant of the fungus Neurospora crassa that has extranuclear inheritance. Poky is characterized by slow growth, a defect in mitochondrial ribosome assembly and deficiencies in several cytochromes. The studies of poky mutants were among the first to establish an extranuclear mitochondrial basis for inheritance of a particular genotype. It was initially found, using genetic crosses, that poky is maternally inherited.
A well studied example of uniparental inheritance involves the poky mutants of Neurospora crassa. The original poky mutant was isolated by Mitchell and Mitchell in 1952 as a spontaneously occurring slow growing variant. In genetic crosses, the poky phenotype was found to be maternally inherited. The protoperithecial parent is regarded as the female (maternal) parent in Neurospora.
Currently distributions such as Android, Angstrom, and Poky are supported on this platform.
A Christmas special, The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas, aired on Showtime on December 13, 1992.
The Poky Little Puppy is a children's book written by Janette Sebring Lowrey and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. It was first published in 1942 as one of the first twelve books in the Simon & Schuster series Little Golden Books. The copyright was renewed in October 1969. The Poky Little Puppy is a story about five puppies of undetermined breed.
Subsequently, the primary defect in the poky mutants was determined to be a deletion in the mitochondrial DNA sequence encoding the small subunit of mitochondrial ribosomal RNA.
Poky and Friends is a series of animated videos and books produced by Varga TVC Productions and Golden Books Family Entertainment that ran from 1998 until 2003.
The Poky Little Puppy then eats the rice pudding that the mother was planning to give all the puppies but withheld because of the fence-digging incident. Not knowing that he is going to be punished, he secretly eats up the rice pudding and crawls into bed happy as a lark. This pattern then repeats itself, only with chocolate custard for dessert instead of rice pudding. Once again, the Poky Little Puppy avoids punishment while everyone else is asleep.
Back at Harbortown, Beamer looks out at the storm clouds on the horizon, and along with the big ships, is starting to worry whether Scuffy and his friends will make it back in time. Up in the mountains, Tootle takes his friends into Cavetown Tunnel, where he becomes frightened by the bats, but nevertheless makes it through. Outside, they meet up with Poky Little Puppy, Saggy Baggy Elephant, and Scuffy, only to find Shy Little Kitten has gone missing. In order to find Shy Little Kitten, Poky Little Puppy follows her footprints and eventually finds her and her new friend, Baby Brown Bear.
It is a spinoff of classic Little Golden Books characters (The Poky Little Puppy, The Shy Little Kitten, etc.), just like the animated special Little Golden Book Land, although the series featured different character designs for the characters to fit the animated series.
Little Golden Books is a series of children's books, founded in 1942. The eighth book in the series, The Poky Little Puppy, is the top-selling children's book of all time.. Many of the Little Golden Books have become bestsellers, including The Poky Little Puppy, Tootle, Scuffy the Tugboat, and The Little Red Hen. Several of the illustrators for the Little Golden Books later became influential within the children's book industry, including Corinne Malvern, Tibor Gergely, Gustaf Tenggren, Feodor Rojankovsky, Richard Scarry, Eloise Wilkin, and Garth Williams. Many books in the Little Golden Books series deal with nature, science, Bible stories, nursery rhymes, and fairy tales.
The Poky Little Puppy (1942). Tenggren gave up his Rackham-esque fairy tale illustration style after he left Disney in 1940. Although his work for Disney was still in the Rackham fairy- tale illustration style, after he left the studio he never painted that way again. From 1942 to 1962, Tenggren worked for Little Golden Books with illustrations for children's books such as Saggy Baggy Elephant, Tawny Scrawny Lion, The Shy Little Kitten, Little Black Sambo, and The Poky Little Puppy, which became the single all-time best-selling hardcover children's book in English; and "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table," Emma Gelders Sterne's retelling of the Arthurian Legend.
Instead of following his siblings when they all sneak out to play (although their mother has warned them that they can go out and play; but never dig holes under the fences so they can go to other yards), the title character lags behind to observe other things. In the beginning, his independence is rewarded. The puppies had all dug a hole underneath the fence to escape from their yard (instead of playing in their own backyard), but only the Poky Little Puppy's siblings are caught. The Poky Little Puppy avoids punishment because he is away exploring as his mother scolds his siblings, and he comes home alone after everyone is asleep.
The Ångström distribution is a Linux distribution for a variety of embedded devices. The distribution is the result of work by developers from the OpenZaurus, OpenEmbedded, and OpenSIMpad projects. The graphical user interfaces (GUIs) available are OPIE and GPE among other options. The Ångström distribution is in "competition" with Poky Linux.
Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film "gets by if you don't mind an essentially passive, poky approach to adventure", and called the accompanying featurette Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too "a livelier and more amusing film."Arnold, Gary (December 26, 1974). "Tame Adventure for Preschoolers". The Washington Post. B15.
The eighth book in the series, The Poky Little Puppy, is the top selling children's book of all time.Diane Roback, editor; compiled by Debbie Hochman Turvey. "All-Time Bestselling Children's Books: A listing of hardcovers that have sold 750,000 copies and paperbacks that have topped the one million copy mark over the years," Publishers Weekly (Dec 17, 2001).
The Poky Little Puppy was the single all- time best-selling hardcover children's book in the U.S., having sold nearly 15 million copies. While the book has outsold many other famous books such as Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham, Lowrey herself (who also wrote stories about children in her home state of Texas) remained in relative obscurity until her death.
Pocatello High School is a four-year public high school in Pocatello, Idaho, United States, locally known as "Poky". It is the oldest of the three traditional high schools of the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District, and serves the southwest portion. The school colors are red and blue and the mascot is an Indian; the city's namesake, Chief Pocatello, was the leader of the Shoshone people.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2 out of 4 stars, praising the lead actors, particularly Newman "steals every scene he's in", but criticized the contrived ending. Todd McCarthy from The Hollywood Reporter called it a "dreary, lachrymose and incredibly poky tear-jerker" but conceded it had a built in audience among those who put the book on the bestseller list.
The big ships laugh at him for such a thought. Beamer orders them to stop it, but Scuffy is determined to prove that a little tugboat like him can do big things. Later, Scuffy meets up with his friends, Tootle, Katy Caboose, Poky Little Puppy, and Shy Little Kitten, and explains the problem. Despite their fears about getting into trouble, they agree to help Scuffy fix the breakwater.
Scuffy outraces the hungry crocodiles, but goes over a waterfall and meets up with Saggy Baggy Elephant. Saggy Baggy Elephant also finds Poky Little Puppy (who went out to look for Scuffy) hiding in a pile of leaves. Meanwhile, Tootle, Katy Caboose, and Shy Little Kitten have come to the Rabbits' house where Tawny Scrawny Lion is hanging out with his rabbit friends. After getting tossed out of the hammock, Tawny Scrawny Lion agrees to help.
After Katy Caboose points out they need a big rock and not a carrot, Tawny Scrawny Lion offers to come with his friends to Cavetown to protect them. But from what? Meanwhile, Poky Little Puppy and Scuffy have told Saggy Baggy Elephant about the breakwater, and Saggy Baggy Elephant also agrees to help. He offers them his coconuts, but after Scuffy points out they need a rock, Saggy Baggy Elephant takes his friends along a path to Cavetown.
Janette Sebring Lowrey was born in Orange, Texas. Lowrey wrote dozens of books aimed at children and young adults from the 1930s to the 1970s, but The Poky Little Puppy remains her best known, selling over 15 million copies worldwide. Another well-known work of hers was Margaret, a historical fiction young adult novel, which was published in 1950. It was adapted into Walt Disney Presents: Annette, a TV serial that aired on The Mickey Mouse Club in 1958.
Nostalgia holds a 39% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 54 reviews, with a weighted average of 5.36/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Nostalgia combines talented actors and honorable intentions, but poky pacing and a lack of depth make it unlikely the end result will ever inspire the titular emotion." On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 47 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Tootle then slams on his brakes and sends everything flying out of his train Poky Little Puppy, Shy Little Kitten, Tawny Scrawny Lion, Saggy Baggy Elephant, and Baby Brown Bear land on the mattresses, and Scuffy lands back in the water. The big rock lands squarely in the hole in the breakwater, plugging it up and preventing Harbortown from being flooded. Eventually, the storm passes and the Golden Sun shines down again. Then everybody holds a party for Scuffy, hosted by Beamer.
Corinne Malvern #The Alphabet from A to Z, by Leah Gale, illus. Vivienne Blake and Richard Peck #The Poky Little Puppy, by Janette Sebring Lowrey, illus. Gustaf Tenggren #The Golden Book of Fairy Tales, by Winfield Scott Hoskins #Baby's Book of Objects #The Animals of Farmer Jones, by Leah Gale, illus. Richard Scarry #This Little Piggy and Other Counting Rhymes, by Phyllis Cerf Wagner, illus. Roberta Harris Pfafflin Petty Three editions totaling 1.5 million books sold out within five months of publication in 1942.
He eats up the chocolate custard withheld because of the fence digging incident. Again, not knowing he is going to be punished, he secretly eats up it too, and again crawls into bed happy as a lark. Only at the end of the book does fate catch up with the Poky Little Puppy. When the puppies are sent to bed without dessert a third time (this time being strawberry shortcake), they wait until they think their mother is sleeping, then sneak out of bed and fill in the hole they'd dug under the fence.
While working with Mirabilis jalapa, Correns observed that leaf colour was dependent only on the genotype of the maternal parent. Based on these data, he determined that the trait was transmitted through a character present in the cytoplasm of the ovule. Later research by Ruth Sager and others identified DNA present in chloroplasts as being responsible for the unusual inheritance pattern observed. Work on the poky strain of the mould Neurospora crassa begun by Mary and Hershel Mitchell ultimately led to the discovery of genetic material in the mitochondria, the mitochondrial DNA.
Pumping house (or bumping) is an intermediate term and a local variant of the early scouse house scene, which was popular Russia and Spain in the late 1990s to early 2000s. The genre takes start when the Dutch duo Klubbheads invented so called bamboo-bass in the track Ultimate Seduction - "A Walking Nightmare (Klubbheads GP Mix)" in 1997. Years later the genre gave the birth to Britain's donk scene and Spain scene poky. Pumping house is used as an interchangeable term for scouse house in Russia and Spain.
However, there have been few occasions where Jones has shown doubt and even mistrust towards Mainwaring. Notably in the episode "The King was in His Counting House", Jones disdains Mainwaring's claim that his father was a renowned tailor and member of "The Master Tailors' Guild", by revealing that Mainwaring's father merely owned a "poky little drapery shop up a side alley" and sold poor-quality workman's trousers. His main rivalries are with Frazer, and the Verger, whom he often calls a troublemaker. On informal occasions, Jones is often accompanied by Mrs Fox, his love-interest.
The original farmhouse was enlarged and modified during their ownership, including the addition of the stepped gables, a Scottish baronial genuflection to the land of their fathers. By the time of the sale to Churchill, it was, in the words of Oliver Garnett, author of the 2008 guidebook to the house, an example of "Victorian architecture at its least attractive, a ponderous red-brick country mansion of tile-hung gables and poky oriel windows". Tilden, in his "highly unreliable" memoirs, True Remembrances, wrote of "creating Chartwell out of the drabness of Victorian umbrageousness".
On its original airing, Associated Press writer Kathryn Baker deemed the Nutcracker special "Strictly for those who prefer jelly beans to Christmas dinner." In 1991, Chris Hicks of Utah's Deseret News gave it 1½ stars out of four, commenting that "Even my young children find this one too saccharine". The special is mentioned in Craig Nelson's Bad TV: The Very Best of the Very Worst, in a section entitled "The Curse of the Top Five Annual Christmas Specials" (along with those based on The Smurfs and The Poky Little Puppy).
It was very much a shoestring operation; as Helen O'Brien later recalled, "there was an atmosphere of extreme poverty and undertones of a grim conspiracy over all. At 163 Holland Park Avenue was an ill-lit lecture room and a bare-boarded and poky office some eight by ten feet—mainly infested by long haired men and short haired and tatty women."O'Brien, p. 49 On September 24, 1952, only a few weeks after arriving in London, Hubbard's wife Mary Sue gave birth to her first child, a daughter whom they named Diana Meredith de Wolfe Hubbard.
August 20, 1998. At that point, nearly 15 million copies of The Poky Little Puppy had been sold, including copies in various languages. In 2015, with the release of Little Golden Book adaptations of the first six installments of the Star Wars saga on August 25, the Little Golden Book adaptation of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith became the first- ever Little Golden Book in history to come from a film that was rated PG-13 by the MPAA. Months later, on April 12, 2016, a Little Golden Book adaptation of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the next film in the saga, also rated PG-13, was released.
Titles from this series included a long-lasting electronic chip that played music when readers open those books. Songs featured in this series range from popular children's songs such as Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, to songs from children's TV and movies including People in Your Neighborhood from Sesame Street and Heigh-Ho from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In the year 2000, Encore Software produced a series of "Little Golden Books" titles for CD ROM, including The Poky Little Puppy, Mother Goose, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Velveteen Rabbit, Tootle, and The Saggy Baggy Elephant. These six individual titles were some of the first major software releases to be produced entirely in Macromedia Flash.
Dense, meandering, ambitious yet jarringly pulpy, this tale of big-city corruption in small-town America has competence without mood or power—a design but not a vision". In her review for the Washington Post, Rita Kempley wrote, "With its redundancy of supporting characters, snarled subplots and poky pace, Cop Land really might have been better off trading the director for a traffic cop". Rolling Stone magazine's Peter Travers praised Stallone's performance: "His performance builds slowly but achieves a stunning payoff when Freddy decides to clean up his town ... Freddy awakes to his own potential, and it's exhilarating to watch the character and the actor revive in unison. Nearly down for the count in the movie ring, Stallone isn't just back in the fight.
This led John Vanbrugh to joke that the Duchess had "the direction in chief to herself, with Sir Christopher Wren as her Deputy Surveyor." Eventually she dismissed the Wrens and took control of the design herself. In 1727, Sarah's political rival Sir Robert Walpole purchased the lot between Marlborough House and Pall Mall through his protégé Thomas Ripley, reputedly to deny the Duchess a direct entrance onto Pall Mall. Wren had designed and built a gateway arch and screen in the front courtyard with this entrance in mind, which survives as a grotto. Still intent on an entrance from Pall Mall, in 1729 the Duchess leased four houses to the west and had them demolished to create a "poky" diagonal entrance.
The Yocto Project has the aim and objective of attempting to improve the lives of developers of customized Linux systems supporting the ARM, MIPS, PowerPC and x86/x86-64 architectures. A key part of this is the OpenEmbedded build system, which enables developers to create their own Linux distribution specific to their environment. The Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded Project share maintainership of the main parts of the OpenEmbedded build system: the build engine, BitBake, and the core metadata, OpenEmbedded-Core. The Yocto Project provides a reference implementation called Poky, which contains the OpenEmbedded build system plus a large set of recipes, arranged in a hierarchical system of layers, that can be used as a fully functional template for a customized embedded operating system.
She had a tight 15–14 win in the table of 32 against 17-year-old Alona Komarov of Israel. Her later bouts were easier victories and she eventually earned the gold after defeating Italia's Francesca Quondamcarlo 15–11 in the final. In the team event she led a largely renewed Romanian side, now nicknamed ”Poky Power”, scoring the decisive hit in the 44–43 quarter-final against Sweden; Romania then disposed of Hungary, but failed against Estonia in the final and came away with a silver medal. During the 2013 World Fencing Championships in Budapest, Brânză made her way comfortably to the table of eight, but she was defeated in a tight 14–15 bout by Estonia's Julia Beljajeva, who eventually won the competition.
The architects, Heatherwick Studio, aimed to conserve and celebrate the original structure's industrial heritage, while simultaneously excavating large open spaces from the 42 densely-packed concrete cylinders from which it was comprised. Using a variety of concrete-cutting techniques, the interior of the building was carved out to create a number of galleries and a large central atrium. Disagreements between the architects and director Mark Coetzee over the number of galleries that the museum had to contain ended in what South African art critic Sean O'Toole has described as "poky, low-ceilinged galleries, which often struggle to hold or reflect the ambition of the exhibiting artists". The remaining concrete shafts were capped with strengthened glass in order to allow natural light to enter and create a "cathedral-like" interior.
Charleston Exposition, 1901/02 Track of the miniature railway at the Charleston Exposition At the Charleston Exposition from December 1, 1901 to June 20, 1902 the lilliputian railways installed by the Miniature Railway Co. comprised one of the most popular attractions and best-paying amusement features on the grounds. The routes touched all points of interest from the Sunken Gardens and the Court of Palaces to the hoky-poky dance floor in the headquarters. Patrons found these baby trains an indispensable convenience as well as a joyful novelty in the manner of transportation. The outfit consisted of a locomotive and tender, with a total length or , weighing , and cars long and wide, weighing each, all as complete in detail and as business-like in aspect as a transcontinental express.
Many of the books were bestsellers, including The Poky Little Puppy, Tootle, Scuffy the Tugboat, and The Little Red Hen. Several of the illustrators for the Little Golden Books later became staples within the picture book industry. Corinne Malvern, Tibor Gergely, Gustaf Tenggren, Feodor Rojankovsky, Richard Scarry, Eloise Wilkin, and Garth Williams. In 1947 Goodnight Moon, written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd, was published. By 1955, such picture book classics as Make Way for Ducklings, The Little House, Curious George, and Eloise, had all been published. In 1955 the first book was published in the Miffy series by Dutch author and illustrator Dick Bruna. In 1937, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), at the time a successful graphic artist and humorist, published his first book for children, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. It was immediately successful, and Seuss followed up with The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins in 1938, followed by The King's Stilts in 1939, and Horton Hatches the Egg in 1940, all published by Random House.