Quit being so protective -- This is Horton!

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	• Horton Hatches the Egg (Classic Seuss) Dr. Seuss Random House Books for Young Readers, 1940 - 64 pages average customer review:based on 45 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

We love Horton!

Horton is a gentle, thoughtful elephant that teaches wonderful morals to children. My 14 month old loves it for the rhymes, he actually sits quietly and listens while I read it to him. Im sure that we will be reading this book far into the future.

Quit being so protective -- This is Horton!

If I am reading the reviews right, a great deal of people on Amazon who buy children's literature were either never children themselves, or they grew up in a land made out of pillows.

I don't believe the central theme of this book was ever adoption--it has always been a story about commitment and keeping your promises, really--but on the other hand, neither do I believe that it will scar for life the tortured soul of any adopted child unlucky enough to stumble across it in a dentist's office.

My family adopted three children growing up. We had most of Dr. Seuss' books in the house, including both of the Horton stories, and all of us, including my two sisters and younger brother, have grown up as well-adjusted and happy members of society. In fact, Horton helped in that. Not once were the Seuss stories ever perceived as a threat; they provided great comfort in endless afternoons.

As for the worries expressed over "violence" in this story because of the hunters, let me say this--if you weren't affected by it enough to even remember the event, or remember that it was in the book at all when you buy it today, why skip it when reading it to your kids? I should think that the fact that as a child you were so unfazed by the hunters that you didn't remember their guns at all would be proof that there is no need to skip them.

Besides, I have three boys and I've been reading them this story since they were three years old. They love the story and they also love danger and suspense, and the brief peril of Horton just pulls them into the story all the more, rooting for the proud and brave elephant, and clinging to my arm. Kids understand and can handle a lot more than adults who want to coddle them think they can.

Horton Hatches the Egg--still stirring up trouble after all these years. May he ever do so!

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I Love Horton

Great story for children and grownups alike. Life lessons given in rhyming lines and adorable pictures. My grandson loved it and so did I!

Horton the Hero

Horton never gives up, this is a classic book of perseverance and doing the right thing at all costs. Brilliant and well-written for the reader of all ages!

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It's the talk of the jungle when an elephant hatches an egg. Extravagant nonsense and rollicking verse. Full-color illustrations.

Format: Hardcover, 54pp. ISBN: 039480077x Publisher: Random House, Incorporated Pub. Date: May 1976 Recommend Age Range: 4 to 8

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