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Horton hatches the egg

Author: Seuss, Dr.
Publisher: New York : Random House, [1940] ©1940
Series: Billie M. Levy Collection of Illustrated Children's books.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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When a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton, the elephant, to sit on her egg--which he does through all sorts of hazards until he is rewarded for doing what he said he would.
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Genre/Form: Fantasy
Fantasy fiction
Stories in rhyme
Fiction
Juvenile works
Juvenile fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Seuss, Dr.
ISBN: 9781448770977 1448770971 9780394800776 039480077X 9780394900773 0394900774 0001953028 9780001953024 0001957406 9780001957404 0001957392 9780001957398 9780007175192 0007175191
OCLC Number: 189245
Target Audience: 560
Description: 55 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Series Title: Billie M. Levy Collection of Illustrated Children's books.
Responsibility: by Dr. Seuss.
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Everyone laughs when Horton the Elephant offers to sit on Mayzie bird's egg while she goes on holiday. Horton's kindness and faithfulness are sorely tested when he, and the egg, are kidnapped and  Read more...

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"[Dr. Seuss] has...instilled a lifelong love of books, learning and reading [in children]" - The Telegraph "Dr. Seuss ignites a child's imagination with his mischievous characters and zany Read more...

 
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Nice book To read As Historical as well as Spritual

by mukhtarsaad (WorldCat user published 2016-02-10) Fair Permalink

Its nice and worth to read I have placed some interesting notes from this book on http://www.hotelsomnath.com so I recommend this book must be read.

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