Horton Hatches the Egg - Hardcover

Dr. Seuss

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 7500117175 ISBN 13: 9787500117179

Publisher: Zhongguo Dui Wai Fan Yi Chu Ban Gong Si, 2007

Synopsis

Dr. Seuss illustrates children's pure hearts and curious minds and loving others through a kind elephant Horton who tries to protect the tiny little creatures... Heartwarming and affectionate story.

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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 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

From the Back Cover:

A Chunky Book® with an added surprise--a punch-out piece to play w

Everyone loves Dr. Seuss! A true original, he wrote and illustrated over 50

classic children's books with total sales of more than 100 million copies. For

children of all ages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zhongguo Dui Wai Fan Yi Chu Ban Gong Si
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 7500117175
• ISBN 13: 9787500117179
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 60