Horton Hatches the Egg (Dr. Seuss Classics) - Hardcover

Seuss

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 7500117175 ISBN 13: 9787500117179

Publisher: Collins, 1962

Synopsis

Simplified Chinese and English Bilingual edition of Dr Seuss: Horton Hatches The Egg Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

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Review:

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

Review:

“Dr Seuss ignites a child’s imagination with his mischievous characters and zany verses.”
The Express

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 1962
• ISBN 10: 7500117175
• ISBN 13: 9787500117179
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 55