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An ageless classic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 17, 2023

This hardback book was the first Dr. Suess book I read as a child, and I am sending a copy to my great niece and nephew.

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Can be frightening / but some good messages in there

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 26, 2021

Overall it’s a good book - but it is a tad on the violent side. If your kiddo picks up on that nuance then it might be best left for later. They talk about tying Horton down / caging him / boiling the clover with The Who’s on it / Who’s drowning / etc and Horton gets attacked by a group of monkeys and kangaroos and the eagle doesn’t listen to his pleas - all things that can be concerning for some kids.

The rest of the story about Horton protecting The Who’s and the interactions are good though, and it’s one of the longer Dr Seuss books I’ve seen. We tend to just “censor” the parts where it talks about roping / caging / beating Horton.

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Patricia Phinney

An ageless classic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 17, 2023

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This hardback book was the first Dr. Suess book I read as a child, and I am sending a copy to my great niece and nephew.

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Karl Roneker

Classic book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 26, 2023

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Great book to read to your grandchild.

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Jonpaul Okal

Just like when I was a kid.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 8, 2023

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Excellent quality and the same great story from back in the day.

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Kitty's Mom

Another Dr. Seuss Classic for my Grandchildren's Collection

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 31, 2023

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Continuing a family tradition of the wonderful Dr. Seuss books for the grandkids. Seller shipped quickly and the book was packaged carefully. Perfect in every way!

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Gustavo Perez

Good gift.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 14, 2023

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My grandson enjoyed reading this book.

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Oldie but goodie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 18, 2023

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This was a gift for a baby shower and I bought from the experience with my own children that are adults now, how much they loved this book. I read it faithfully to them for many years to the point I had it memorized

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Betsy Nolan

I love this book. I agree with the message it sends

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2023

Love the message

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 11, 2023

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My grand daughter likes it when I read to her

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NaCl

Best of Seuss

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 11, 2023

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I think this is Dr. Seuss at his best. A timeless story about our place in the universe and how to be a good friend. Horton is a story every child needs to hear over and over again.

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Armando N. Roman

A book with heart.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 6, 2011

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For some reason, my mom never let me read Dr. Seuss books when I was little, so I missed out on many of his tales until I was older. I'd snuck in a reading of The Cat in the Hat at the school library here and there, saw the videos of The Lorax and How the Grinch Stole Christmas in the early 90s too, but that about does it for Dr. Seuss and me. But when my daughter was just 1, one of her favorite books to have read to her was a Dr. Seuss book (There's a Wocket in my Pocket!). I thought it was cute, and we got her a few other Dr. Seuss books, and she liked them all. But recently I read her Horton Hears a Who! at the book store, and she absolutely loved it- never distracted for a second, genuinely wanting to know what was going to happen to that little speck Horton was talking to. And you know, I even cared because of how desperate Horton was to protect it from everyone who thought it was nothing.

Horton is a kind and gentle elephant, minding his own business when one day, a little speck starts talking to him. It turns out that the speck of dust actually contains a little world of Whos, and Horton saved them by placing them on a flower instead of letting it drift off into oblivion. Horton did the right thing because, as we all know, a person's a person, no matter how small! This is the main lesson in the book, and a very important one that people of all ages should respect. As Horton carries the flower around, various creatures try to disturb it, and think Horton's crazy for saying that people live on something as tiny as a speck of dust. One creature goes so far as to throw it in a huge field full of identical flowers. Desperate to save everyone from a terrible fate, Horton tries to get the Whos to shout as loud as they can so that everyone can hear them. They shout as loud as they can, but it's not working. Seemingly every Who is doing their best to be loud, except for one. Is that one little person just what they need to be heard?

While the book is a little on the long side compared to other Dr. Seuss books we own, it's a -story- book. Not just a bunch of fun rhymes and crazy character designs. Sure it has its share of weird made-up words and funny looking characters, you get attached to poor Horton who can't convince anyone that there's life on that little speck of dust. The message of 'a person's a person, no matter how small' gets across without being overdone. It was kind of sad to see how the movie handled everything, and didn't have the heart that this book does. I highly recommend this one, and hope to read more great stories from Dr. Seuss soon.

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