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    <![CDATA[Horton Hatches the Egg]]>
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    <![CDATA[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. (&quot;They taunted.  They teased him. They yelled 'How Absurd! Old Horton the Elephant thinks he's a bird!'&quot;) 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. <em>Horton Hatches the Egg</em> 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) <em>--Richard Farr</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Dr Seuss's earliest books, and for me, his all-time best. I adore Horton! His determined goodness and those wonderful expressions on his dear face. I still read this several times a year and never fail to be pleased that things work out well for Horton in the end. And clearly Dr Seuss was ahe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5256738">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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