Horton Hatches the Egg

I meant what I said and I said what I meant - My daughter and I love this book -100%

Not only is this a fun story with wonderful rhymes, but it also teaches some great lessons to little ones. Lessons like being faithful and keeping your word, being kind and not making fun of friends, and my favorite - hard work will be worth it in the end.

Horton Hatches the Egg is one of my favorite classic Dr Seuss books, and now my little girl is falling in love with it too. After a holiday visit with family, and reading this with her cousins, my toddler asked for her own copy which I was happy to make happen. Now it is part of our night time/ bed time ritual... I forgot how useful rhyming and rhythmic stories are for getting the little one to sleep at night.

this is definitely a keeper and a book that every parent should have in their library.

Review

This one doesn't share the same kind of flair that came with Horton Hears a Who!

FUN TO READ

Since I was a younger I have always been a fan on Dr.Seuss's books and I enjoyed being read to. Although there isn't a universal moral to this story, it does have a theme and great ideas. Children love the goofy pictures and silly rhymes . Overall, this book is a keeper and worthy of passing down from generation to generation. I definitely recommend it for elementary readers, teacher, and parents.

Wonderful Memories

I have had the best memories of my dad reciting this to us kids, and I plan to do the same for my own. It is a wonderful book that all kids should hear.

Horton's egg is wholarious

I love this story, because it makes the most unlikliest person very responsible. Mayzie, the lazy bird is cold hearted from beginning to end, and in the end Horton really hears a who from the hatchling.

Virtue Earns a Reward!

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 and tired and 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, and ever so gently . . . sits on the egg. Mayzie decides a little vacation in Palm Beach will be in order. Once there, she says . . . 'why bother?' and 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 and he meant what he said.' He sat on that egg, no matter what. Through a long series of misadventures, Mayzie and Horton are reunited just as the egg hatches. Mayzie wants her egg back, and Horton doesn't agree. Then the big surprise happens and Horton gets his reward! Teaching children patience and persistence . . . well, that takes a lot of patience and persistence. Horton Hatches the Egg is a way to provide a small fictional example when setbacks and 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 formed in part by Horton's example in this book. This book contains many valuable lessons to encourage such as: keeping your word; being honest; looking out for those in need; sticking through to the end; facing your fears; and 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! Donald Mitchell, co-author of The Irresistible Growth Enterprise and The 2,000 Percent Solution

This is a great book!

This is a great book and when I read it,it made me laugh.I think you should read it too.It was funny to think an elephant could hatch an egg.I enjoyed this book and I hope you will too.

Sooo heartfelt!!!

This book is sooo cute!!! It's the story of a good natured kind elephant who helps a selfish bird...the end is the best though, read it for yourself!!!

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