She seems mildly amused that Horton is still sitting on the silly egg until the egg begins to hatch and then we pick up the story again. And it is when the circus stops in Palm Beach that Mayzie re-enters the story. Now if we were to continue to read the story we would discover how Horton was captured by hunters and that he and the tree, and the nest and the egg were sold to a circus, where people paid to see an elephant sitting in a tree. In the part that I read this morning you were introduced to the two main character’s Horton the Elephant and Mayzie the bird. Is the book familiar to anyone? This was one of Seuss’s first books, it was published for the first time in 1940, fourteen years before the sequel, and it was one of the books that my parents read to me when I was little. Yep this is the same Horton who Heard a Who, and this is where we first hear his philosophy “I meant what I said and I said what I meant, an elephant is faithful one hundred percent.” (Read from beginning to page with animal friends running away)
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