Horton Hatches the Egg
by Dr. Seuss
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Book Summary Information
Author: Dr. SeussEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-10-12
ISBN: 039480077X
Number of pages: 64
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9780394800776
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Horton Hatches the Egg
Book Review: NOT APPROPRIATE FOR TODDLERS
Summary: 1 Stars
I read this to my 2 1/2 year old and she's had nightmares for a week about hunters shooting her with guns. In the book,hunters come after Horton and point their guns at him. Horton braces to be shot but then the hunters change their mind and kidnap him to the circus instead. In general it's a dark tail for the littler ones. Go ahead and read it to your kid if you want them to wake up crying and screaming like mine did.
Summary of Horton Hatches the Egg
Illus. in color by the author. It's the talk of the jungle when an elephant hatches an egg. Extravagant nonsense and rollicking verse.Poor Horton. Dr. Seuss's kindly elephant is persuaded to sit on an egg while its mother, the good-for-nothing bird lazy Maysie, takes a break. Little does Horton know that Maysie is setting off for a permanent vacation in Palm Springs. He waits, and waits, never leaving his precarious branch, even through a freezing winter and a spring that's punctuated by the insults of his friends. ("They taunted. They teased him. They yelled 'How Absurd! Old Horton the Elephant thinks he's a bird!'") Further indignities await, but Horton has the patience of Job--from whose story this one clearly derives--and he is rewarded in the end by the surprise birth of... an elephant-bird. Horton Hatches the Egg contains some of Theodor Geisel's most inspired verse and some of his best-ever illustrations, the dated style of which only accentuates their power and charm. A book no childhood should be without. (Ages 2 to 7) --Richard Farr
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