Horton Hatches the Egg

Today Bryce brought home this book today from school and told me that each kid received this Dr. Suess Collector's Edition of Horton Hatches the Egg. He asked me to read the page listed below because, he was so excited that the city he lives in "Kalamazoo" was mentioned in the book. The book was given to each kid from the Oshtemo Rotary. So it was fun watching and listening to Bryce share this book and event with me.





Sold to a circus! Then week after week
They showed him to people at ten cents a peek.
They took him to Boston, to Kalamazoo,
Chicago, Weehawken, and Washington, too;
To Dayton, Ohio; St.Paul, Minnesota;
To Wichita, Kansas; to Drake, North Dakota.
And everywhere thousands of folks flocked to see
And laugh at the elephant up in a tree.
Poor Horton grew sadder the farther he went,
But he said as he sat in the hot noisy tent:
"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant...
An elephant's faithful one-hundred per cent!"