Horton Hatches the Egg - Hardcover
Yellow back books - Ideal for fluent readers, and great fun for practising reading aloud. They also make wonderful bedtime stories for younger children. When faithful Horton agrees to look after lazy Mayzie's egg, he determines to face up to his responsibilities - whatever it may cost him!
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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 suspect 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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“Dr Seuss ignites a child’s imagination with his mischievous characters and zany verses.”
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- PublisherHarperCollins Children's Books
- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 0007767552
- ISBN 13 9780007767557
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages56
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