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Original Title:	Horton Hears a Who!
ISBN:	0679800034 (ISBN13: 9780679800033)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Horton the Elephant
Characters:	Horton the Elephant

Horton Hears a Who! (Horton the Elephant) Paperback | Pages: 64 pages

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Title	:	Horton Hears a Who! (Horton the Elephant)
Author	:	Dr. Seuss
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 64 pages
Published	:	October 10th 1990 by Random House Books for Young Readers (first published August 1954)
Categories	:	Childrens. Picture Books. Fiction. Classics. Poetry. Fantasy. Animals

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In the fifties, my Mom was head librarian for our small-town library (politically, we were termed a Police Village, whatever that meant). So we kids got our literacy skills off and running when she used to catalogue books in our kitchen. Especially since City View was in the middle of the postwar Baby Boom - like everywhere else back then - which required her little library to be stocked with piles and piles of kids' books! And we were the first kids in our village of snug postwar bungalows to read Dr. Seuss. We laughed. We howled. We ROARED in delight! Horton Hears a Who was SO much better than our puny one-channel B&W TV with 7 hours of dull community programming - anyday! The early 1950‘s in backwater Canada were tough - the postwar recovery was going to take a while - but kids back then learned to VALUE their friends and family. I had a very good friend named Norman back in those days. Norman couldn‘t play ball or run with us - he had a defective heart. We all knew he didn‘t have much time to live. But Norman was the only friend I had who could talk about the serious things in life, and I had a very serious side, too, even back then. So we would talk about life and death. The Bomb. Our parents. The facts of life. Death itself. Serious, deep stuff that our prefab, one-size-fits-all society now rushes through in its plastic, clinical and brutal attempts to mature us. And how lucky we were - we didn’t live in a world of socially engineered mental hygiene back then. We were free! And the way we felt at the end of a long summer’s day was much like the warm feeling we get now after reading a very good book. A sense of being close to our roots and to our Creator... In our books we can find serious, non-conforming friends - just like my late friend Norman! People unafraid of the truth. And in books we can live in those simpler, unsupervised, unwatched times like he and I knew, all over again, if we like. It’s all in our books. Today my wife and I don't even have cable TV - only books. We learned something valuable from those years. Like, for instance, HORTON’s gentle philosophy. “An elephant’s faithful - one hundred percent!” Doesn’t get any better than that! Horton’s still in print. Theodore Geisel’s uncensored compassion lives on. Life is good. And you know what? The Big-Hearted elephant with Ears of a matching size (ears so acute and friendly they can detect a whole beleaguered Microdot Civilisation of Who's) still delights us and the little kids around us who may be hearing his story for the very first time. And still as comforting as ever, is the analogy of this Big Guy up there somewhere - as caring and compassionate as Horton or Norman - inclining his ear to the plight of a beleaguered world like ours and PROMISING that we will not stomped out by a new Rampaging Elephant. And so, these days, I always repeat Horton’s words to my wife: I meant what I said, & I said what I meant - An Elephant's faithful ONE HUNDRED PER CENT!

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*****SPOILERS***** I think what Seuss misses here is that the intended moral, about sticking up for people who can't defend themselves, is rendered moot about halfway through in the 'clover patch 100 miles wide' episode. At this point, if he could have set aside the cause he had invested himself in for a moment, Horton would have appreciated that the Whos were in the best possible situation now for them, completely hidden and safe. But his paternalistic impulse to save the weak pushes him on to

UPDATE: I just ran across a Guzer video story of a real man who can neither read nor write but who creates ultra-miniature sculptures which are smaller than the eye of a needle. He began to do this because when he was young, his teachers made him 'feel small'. The significance not to mention the charm of Horton Hears a Who! lies in the universality of smallness. Everyone knows what it is like to have been or felt small at some time in his or her life. For children it is where they still are. For

Another wonderful Dr. Seuss book that will be passed through your family for generations to come. My twin 3 yr olds recognized this book immediately when I brought it home, having saw the movie version not too long ago. It didn't matter, they were still fascinated with it. From every picture to every rhyme, they were enthralled. They love yelling out "We are here!" along with the Who's. Even my 5 yr old got into it. A fun read that's for the whole family.

Told in the usual charming repetitive rhyme of Dr. Seuss so often appreciated by young children. Great message about how everyone is important and everyone can make a difference. Horton is a particularly endearing character, showing kindness and persistence, and risking ridicule and being ostracized and even being the recipient of abuse in order to help others and stand up for what he believes in. And the Whos do their part as well! One of those childrens books that can become more meaningful

Oh, this book was incredible.I was first introduced to the story of Horton Hears a Who last year in an apologetics class. Since then I haven't been able to get enough of it. When I found out they were making a movie from the book I was completely thrilled! It didn't even matter if they messed it up, even though I knew they wouldn't, so long as they were making a movie of it! The story follows a happy go lucky elephant named Horton. Horton lives a fairly normal life until the day when he hears a

5 Awesome ★'s A person's a person, no matter how small. I absolutely love this book. No matter how many time's I read it throughout the years it's always incredible :) I have read several Dr. Seuss books in my time and this one is another wonderful book that will most definitely be passed down through your family for generations to come. From every picture to every rhyme, everything about it is just perfect. It's colorful and unique. The illustrations are large and lively. It's really fun to

One of my children's favourites both at home and for reading time at school.They absolutely adore Horton. Recommended.