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Summary: Not just whimsical rhyming makes this book enchanting
Review: Of course this book is a well-loved rhyming treasure. However, only as as adult and parent, do I 'get' the ending. "It should be that way," is repeated after the egg hatches to reveal a baby Horton bird. After all, it teaches, he did the work, and deserves to reap the reward.Just delightful in every way.
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Summary: Keeping our promises even when it's not convenient
Review: Poor Horton is taken advantage of but he keeps his promise to watch over the little egg until it's mother returns.
Teaches children that it's not always easy to keep our promises. Particularly when the other person takes advantage of the situation.
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Summary: very long
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
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Summary: True to his word, great lesson
Review: Poor old Horton is back again, this time hatching an irresponsible mother bird's egg. While she takes off for someplace like Florida, poor old Horton is sitting on her egg, just like he told her he would, waiting for it to hatch. In the midst of storms, good weather and sneers from others, Horton sits on the egg until it does hatch. When it does, mother bird just "happens" to appear and wants her baby. However, the baby is a flying elephant! It's a very cute story and teaches kids to keep their word as promised. It's also great if you have an elephant lover in your house!
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Summary: The Perfect Book for Children of All Ages
Review: Reading this story to a child that you love is one of life's great joys. Horton is a character that I cherish. As a teacher, I read this story to every one of my classes. As a mom, I read it nightly to my children. As always, Dr. Seuss' rhymes are enchanting, clever and fun. Within these delightful pages are lessons about character, commitment, decency, responsibility, justice, and the nature and value of true love. That's quite a bit of bang for your buck, I'd say! Even with all of the tremendous new books made available to children year after year, there is a reason why publishers have been reprinting this since 1940. -- You'd be hard pressed to find a better book of this type. -- The truth is, we all deserve to know someone like Horton. And even after all this time, it is reassuring to know that 'an elephant is faithful, one hundred per cent'.
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Summary: Virtue Earns a Reward!
Review: 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!
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Summary: Review
Review: This is the tale of a bird that has an egg but he gets bored sitting on it. He decided to ask Horton the elephant to sit on the egg for him. He says he will and the bird flies away to go on vacation. He sits and sits on the egg and the bird doesn't come back. Eventually people find the elephant sitting up in the tree and he will not leave because he promises he will sit on it for the bird. Some people take him to a carnival as a show. Then the bird shows up at the carnival and sees the elephant on the tree. The egg starts to hatch and the bird comes back to take all the credit for it but when the egg is hatch it is an elephant bird.
This is a story that shows that you can't just let someone else do all the work and expect to get something. This is a great moralistic tale and I think Dr. Suess does a really good job illustrating this point. I think that this is a great book for children because it teaches them a lesson and it is a fun story at the same time. It also has great pictures as all of Dr. Suess books do.
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Summary: Excellant Lesson to be learned
Review: This playful and imaginative book is about an elephant that comes across a bird that is extremely stressed and does not wish to sit on her egg anymore. So Horton decides to sit on the egg so the bird can take a break. Well the bird ends up taking a tropical vacation and doesn't want to return. Well Horton very patiently sat on the egg through sleet and rain and the most horrible conditions. Well some people decide that this is a hilarious site and feel that he should be on display for all to see. So the men dig up the tree in which Horton is patiently perched and is taken down south. When Horton and the tree reach the south the mother bird finds Horton just as his egg starts to hatch and she demands it back. Horton is very displeased and states that he did all the work and deserves the egg. Well just as that was said out of the egg jumps an Elephant bird, which is a trophy for all Horton's hard work.
Dr. Seuss yet again did a wonderful job with rhymes and engaging children to read. I love the moral that was being put into place that if you work hard and stay focused then it will all pay off and you will be rewarded in the end.
This is one of my favorite Dr. Seuss book if not my favorite. I have always been a fan of his ability to draw children in and engage them in reading. Also the rhymes and silly words are great for young readers. Also what better then to have a moral tied along with it?
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Summary: this book will teach that persistance and hard work pay off
Review: This wonderful story illustrates how when you make a commitment you should stick to it, and that standing up for what you believe in is the right thing to do
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Summary: What? A Dr. Seuss tear-jerker?
Review: Well, not a tear-jerker for adults. But as a child, I would get furious at the moment Mayzie abandons her egg, compassionately sad with Horton through his many trials, and the surprise ending never failed to ellicit joyful cries. It's still a heartwarming tale to me, but filled, of course, with gorgeous illustrations and Seussical nonsense, though not anywhere near as much as One Fish, Two Fish or Green Eggs and Ham.
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