This classic and beloved Dr. Seuss story was first published in 1940.
Horton is a sweet and lovable elephant with a heart as big as he is. (He’s pretty cute, too.) One day he meets a bird named Mayzie who is sitting on her egg in a tree. She’s extremely bored and wants to go off for just a short break, and she asks Horton if he would mind sitting on her egg while she’s gone, just for a minute. Horton wonders if he really has the ability to do her this most unusual favor, but he agrees to help her out, and climbs up the tree.
Once free from her responsibilities, Mayzie goes a little nuts and decides that she’s not coming back. Meanwhile, Horton is patiently sitting, trusting that she’ll keep her word and return. He sits there all day, through a horrible storm, and still no bird.
She’s in Palm Beach.
Meanwhile, winter comes and Horton is frozen to the tree with icicles hanging off his trunk. But he’s given his word, and he can’t possibly break it.
The other animals think it’s quite absurd to see an elephant sitting on a nest in a tree! They tease him and taunt him, but nothing will get him to give up.
Then along come some hunters, sneaking up on him. Horton is not afraid – he puffs out his chest and tells them that he will not give up his post. The men think this is quite amazing – an elephant hatching an egg? They decide to sell him to the circus, and they take him, tree, nest and all, back to town with them.
Now Horton is in the circus, with scads of people coming to see him every day. And who should stop by but Mayzie? Just then the egg starts to crack. Mayzie, seeing that all the hard work is done, steps in to demand rights back to her egg, but guess what?
When the baby bird comes out, he looks just like Horton! He was a tiny little elephant with wings! And that’s just how it should be – Horton had loved him and cared for him through thick and thin.
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