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I really enjoy reading this book to my kids. Some parts are hard to get through without tearing up. The message is a layered one that I appreciate.
Okay, this is it, my favorite Dr. Seuss book! Everyone should be like Horton :')
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Read this one for the Rory Gilmore reading challenge.
This is one of the Dr.Seuss books I have never read. I did enjoy it and I loved seeing the Who's doing something non-Christmassy as that's what they are typically known for.
Horton is the only one who can hear them and because of that, he is the one to protect them from the other animals until he can finally get the others to pay attention and try and hear the Who's down in Whoville.
This is one of the Dr.Seuss books I have never read. I did enjoy it and I loved seeing the Who's doing something non-Christmassy as that's what they are typically known for.
Horton is the only one who can hear them and because of that, he is the one to protect them from the other animals until he can finally get the others to pay attention and try and hear the Who's down in Whoville.
Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss – Horton is one of the most nurturing and brave heroes in all of literature, and you can try and fight me one that one! Be prepared to lose! Happy Reading!
I have vivid and fond memories of Horton Hears a Who!--reading it roughly, oh, 16 times or so to my kindergarten charge a few years back. I can't say if she loved the allegorical story of Horton and his belief in people, unseen, no matter how small; or, if my young friend just liked the silly voices I attributed to the crazy characters of Dr. Seuss. Either way, Horton is undeniably a book that sticks with you. Its message of inclusion and kindness, and of doing your part, is universal. It would be a great mentor text to teach classroom community at the beginning of the school year.
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Scrambling to hit my reading goal by the end of the year, which means I'm resorting to picture books. Though "resorting," in this case, is absolutely the wrong word, because Horton Hears a Who! is charming. I never really read Dr. Seuss until I had to teach it in a first year university writing class, so (better late than never) I am catching up on this giant of the picture book world, reading them as I come across them. It's amazing what leaks through. I've heard the phrase "a person's a person, no matter how small" any number of times before, but I couldn't have told you where it came from. Well, now I know!
It's a message that comes across without being the slightest bit pedantic, and similarly, the book doesn't even sound all that preachy. I think it's because there's so much ridiculousness surrounding it - Horton sifting through a field of clover, for instance, or the bitchy kangaroos - that it balances out the earnestness of the whole central argument. Which makes it far more appealing...
It's a message that comes across without being the slightest bit pedantic, and similarly, the book doesn't even sound all that preachy. I think it's because there's so much ridiculousness surrounding it - Horton sifting through a field of clover, for instance, or the bitchy kangaroos - that it balances out the earnestness of the whole central argument. Which makes it far more appealing...