Customer Reviews
Wonderful - By: Marta, 04 Nov 2007 
All children should have the oportunity to read about Horton. He is brave & has a great & tender soul. He can teach us all that being good & being helpful makes the world a better place.
I meant what I said - By: 3 Mugs, 07 Nov 2006 ...and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100%. Another abiding childhood memory, & I have to say I'm overjoyed it's stillin print (note to self - review something other than children's books at some point. It may give a strange impression of you). My Mum still has our copyin her keepsake box (my sister & I arein our 30's). So there's nothing for it but to get myself another copy, sorry, I mean get my son a copy. If you love Dr Seuss, then you'll love this. Horton the dependable elephant sticks to his word, & gets his rewardin the end. A joy & essential for children, & also for adults who should know better.
Virtue Earns a Reward! - By: Donald Mitchell, 30 Jul 2004 This book clearly deserves more than five stars!
Horton Hatches the Egg is one of my very favorite children's books. The story opens with Mayzie, a lazy bird, sitting on her nest hatching an egg. She's terribly bored & tired & wants a break. She persuades Horton, the elephant, to take over for her. This is a good choice on her part because, "An elephant's faithful -- one hundred percent!"
So Horton props up the tree so it can take his weight, climbs up onto the nest, & ever so gently . . . sits on the egg.
Mayzie decides a little vacationin Palm Beach will bein order. Once there, she says . . . "why bother?" & abandons her egg.
What Horton didn't know is that this egg needed 51 more weeks of hatching! But, never mind. "He said what he meant & he meant what he said." He sat on that egg, no matter what.
Through a long series of misadventures, Mayzie & Horton are reunited just as the egg hatches. Mayzie wants her egg back, & Horton doesn't agree. Then the big surprise happens & Horton gets his reward!
Teaching children patience & persistence . . . well, that takes a lot of patience & persistence. Horton Hatches the Egg is a way to provide a small fictional example when setbacks & delays occur. My youngsters didn't understand Thomas Edison's comment about genius being 99 percent perspiration until they were well past their Dr. Seuss days. I like to think that their hard-working adult selves (for the three who are adults) were formedin part by Horton's examplein this book.
This book contains many valuable lessons to encourage such as: keeping your word; being honest; looking out for thosein need; sticking through to the end; facing your fears; & many others. It's a remarkable thing to realize also how well the ridiculous image of an unhappy elephant sitting on a nest is a bare tree can create all of those good notions. Way to go, Dr. Seuss!
Virtue Earns a Reward! - By: Donald Mitchell, 30 Jul 2004 This book clearly deserves more than five stars!
Horton Hatches the Egg is one of my very favorite children's books. The story opens with Mayzie, a lazy bird, sitting on her nest hatching an egg. She's terribly bored & tired & wants a break. She persuades Horton, the elephant, to take over for her. This is a good choice on her part because, "An elephant's faithful -- one hundred percent!"
So Horton props up the tree so it can take his weight, climbs up onto the nest, & ever so gently . . . sits on the egg.
Mayzie decides a little vacationin Palm Beach will bein order. Once there, she says . . . "why bother?" & abandons her egg.
What Horton didn't know is that this egg needed 51 more weeks of hatching! But, never mind. "He said what he meant & he meant what he said." He sat on that egg, no matter what.
Through a long series of misadventures, Mayzie & Horton are reunited just as the egg hatches. Mayzie wants her egg back, & Horton doesn't agree. Then the big surprise happens & Horton gets his reward!
Teaching children patience & persistence . . . well, that takes a lot of patience & persistence. Horton Hatches the Egg is a way to provide a small fictional example when setbacks & delays occur. My youngsters didn't understand Thomas Edison's comment about genius being 99 percent perspiration until they were well past their Dr. Seuss days. I like to think that their hard-working adult selves (for the three who are adults) were formedin part by Horton's examplein this book.
This book contains many valuable lessons to encourage such as: keeping your word; being honest; looking out for thosein need; sticking through to the end; facing your fears; & many others. It's a remarkable thing to realize also how well the ridiculous image of an unhappy elephant sitting on a nest is a bare tree can create all of those good notions. Way to go, Dr. Seuss!
Virtue Earns a Reward! - By: Donald Mitchell, 12 May 2004 This book clearly deserves more than five stars!
Horton Hatches the Egg is one of my very favorite children's books. The story opens with Mayzie, a lazy bird, sitting on her nest hatching an egg. She's terribly bored & tired & wants a break. She persuades Horton, the elephant, to take over for her. This is a good choice on her part because, "An elephant's faithful -- one hundred percent!"
So Horton props up the tree so it can take his weight, climbs up onto the nest, & ever so gently . . . sits on the egg.
Mayzie decides a little vacationin Palm Beach will bein order. Once there, she says . . . "why bother?" & abandons her egg.
What Horton didn't know is that this egg needed 51 more weeks of hatching! But, never mind. "He said what he meant & he meant what he said." He sat on that egg, no matter what.
Through a long series of misadventures, Mayzie & Horton are reunited just as the egg hatches. Mayzie wants her egg back, & Horton doesn't agree. Then the big surprise happens & Horton gets his reward!
Teaching children patience & persistence . . . well, that takes a lot of patience & persistence. Horton Hatches the Egg is a way to provide a small fictional example when setbacks & delays occur. My youngsters didn't understand Thomas Edison's comment about genius being 99 percent perspiration until they were well past their Dr. Seuss days. I like to think that their hard-working adult selves (for the three who are adults) were formedin part by Horton's examplein this book.
This book contains many valuable lessons to encourage such as: keeping your word; being honest; looking out for thosein need; sticking through to the end; facing your fears; & many others. It's a remarkable thing to realize also how well the ridiculous image of an unhappy elephant sitting on a nest is a bare tree can create all of those good notions. Way to go, Dr. Seuss!
