"with multiple sclerosis, particularly an incident in 2000 when the federal government mistakenly believed he had died. The second was a book of ideas for children's sermons. While serving as a minister he had often used Seuss stories as illustrations for his sermons, and those sermons were the inspiration for his third book, ""The Gospel According to Dr. Seuss"". He said Theodor S. Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) had always been his favorite theologian, and his favorite theological book was ""Horton Hatches the Egg."" The ""short, clever new book"" has 13 chapters about characters like Sam I Am, Yertle the Turtle,"
"elephant's name changed from Osmer to Bosco to Humphrey. The final choice, Horton, was apparently after Horton Conrad, one of Geisel's classmates at Dartmouth College. The bird's name changed from Bessie to Saidie and finally Mayzie. In the first draft, the elephant character volunteered to sit on the eggs for the bird, who was very reluctant. ""Horton Hatches the Egg"" was published by Random House in fall 1940 to immediate success. It received primarily positive notice from critics. ""Kirkus Reviews"" called it ""sheer nonsense, but good fun."" The reviewer for ""The New York Times Book Review"" wrote, ""A moral is"
"poem about an elephant who tripped and fell on his nose. This version of the book was published in 1980 by Keter Publications in Jerusalem. Fox in Socks Fox in Socks is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1965. It features two main characters, Fox (an anthropomorphic fox) who speaks almost entirely in densely rhyming tongue-twisters and Knox (a yellow anthropomorphic character) who has a hard time following up Fox's tongue-twisters until the end. The book in some ways bears a resemblance to ""Green Eggs and Ham"", another book by Dr. Seuss. Both stories contain two main"
"hatch (after 51 weeks in Palm Beach) and demands that Horton return it, without offering him a reward. However, when the egg hatches, the creature that emerges is an ""elephant-bird"", a cross between Horton and Mayzie, and Horton and the baby are returned happily to the jungle. According to Geisel's biographers Judith and Neil Morgan, ""Horton Hatches the Egg"" was born in 1940, the day after New Year's, when he took a break from drawing in his Park Avenue apartment and went for a walk. When he returned, he noticed that he had left a window open in his studio"
"locates Whoville; but Mother Kangaroo arrives with an army of monkeys, to imprison him and destroy the clover. When the Kangaroos fail to hear a chorus of Whos announcing their presence, monkeys attack Horton, who shouts at the Whos to prove themselves; but all their efforts fail until the Who child 'Jojo' shouts the syllable ""YOPP!"", breaking the sound barrier. The monkeys and Kangaroo apologize to Horton and promise to cooperate with him in protecting Whoville. Horton the Elephant Horton the Elephant is a fictional character from the 1940 book ""Horton Hatches the Egg"" and 1954 book ""Horton Hears a"
"common in children's stories, in which they are generally cast as models of exemplary behaviour. They are typically surrogates for humans with ideal human values. Many stories tell of isolated young elephants returning to a close-knit community, such as ""The Elephant's Child"" from Rudyard Kipling's ""Just So Stories"", Disney's ""Dumbo,"" and Kathryn and Byron Jackson's ""The Saggy Baggy Elephant"". Other elephant heroes given human qualities include Jean de Brunhoff's Babar, David McKee's Elmer, and Dr. Seuss's Horton. Elephant The elephants are the large mammals forming the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea. Three species are currently recognised: the African bush"
"diamonds, forming a quatrefoil enclosing the date ""1900"". The opposite end is set with a rose-cut diamond star, enclosing a portrait diamond over a later miniature of a young woman. The Egg originally bore the monogram B.K.(for Barbara Kelch) beneath the portrait diamond, probably similar to that of the 1899 Kelch Twelve Panel egg. The egg shell opens to reveal, in a fitted velvet compartment, a surprise, an oxidized silver Indian elephant automaton with ivory tusks supporting an enameled turbaned mahout seated upon a gold fringed red and green guilloche enamel saddle cloth. Each side is set with three rose-cut"
"through the oliphaunts of J. R. R. Tolkien's ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy and the alien invaders of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's 1985 science fiction novel, ""Footfall"". Notable short stories featuring elephants include Rudyard Kipling's ""Toomai of the Elephants"" and ""The Elephant's Child""; as well as Mark Twain's ""The Stolen White Elephant"". George Orwell wrote an allegorical essay, ""Shooting an Elephant""; and in ""Hills Like White Elephants"", Ernest Hemingway used the allegorical white elephant, alluding to a pregnancy as an unwanted gift. The animal is also seen in historical novels. ""The Elephant's Journey"" (Portuguese: ""A Viagem do Elefante"","
"and ""The New York Herald Tribune"" for Seuss's illustrations of the birds. Phillip Nel, in the book ""Dr. Seuss: American Icon"", wrote that ""Scrambled Eggs Super!"" was one of Seuss's less politically oriented books. Scrambled Eggs Super! Scrambled Eggs Super! is a 1953 book by American children's author Dr. Seuss. It tells of a boy named Peter T. Hooper, who makes scrambled eggs prepared from eggs of various exotic birds. At the beginning of the story, Peter T. Hooper brags to a girl, Liz, in his mother's kitchen about how good of a cook he is. He tells the story"
"Green Eggs and Ham Green Eggs and Ham is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published on August 12, 1960. As of 2016, the book has sold 8 million copies worldwide. The story has appeared in several adaptations starting with 1973's ""Dr. Seuss on the Loose"" starring Paul Winchell as the voice of both Sam-I-am and the first-person narrator. The story follows a strange creature who does not like green eggs and ham and his friend Sam-I-Am who wants him to eat it. The story becomes a refrain as Sam persistently follows his friend through an assortment of locations"
"1917, by Rev. Peter A. Bjelde. A specimen of egg is also held at Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhubaneswar which was donated by former Indian Ambassador Abasar Beuria and his wife Tripti Beuria from their collection. In April 2013 a specimen was sold at Christie's in London for £66,675 The pre-sale estimate had been ""more than $45,000"". In April 2018, the Buffalo Museum of Science discovered that a giant, cream-colored egg, measuring 12 inches in length and 28 inches in circumference, and weighing over three pounds, that staff had long thought was just a model, was actually an ""elephant"
"elephant. Torrent is the wisest and most knowledgeable and proud elephant in the novel, and is a friend of Tall Time's. He is known for being very soulful and valiant, although he starts to become senile from his old age. Me-Me A female cheetah with a taste for baby elephant. Me-Me cannot communicate with the She-S's through words, so through body language she establishes that she can show the elephants where the Safe Place is, in exchange for She-Snorts's and Mud's unborn calves. Bent A baby male elephant, and the son of She-Soothes. Bent is the innocent voice of the"
"Scrambled Eggs Super! Scrambled Eggs Super! is a 1953 book by American children's author Dr. Seuss. It tells of a boy named Peter T. Hooper, who makes scrambled eggs prepared from eggs of various exotic birds. At the beginning of the story, Peter T. Hooper brags to a girl, Liz, in his mother's kitchen about how good of a cook he is. He tells the story of how, when he became fed up with the taste of regular scrambled eggs using hen's eggs, he decided to scramble eggs from other birds. He tells of how he travelled great distances and"
"and Amy Poehler. John Powell composed the film's music. The film was released on March 14, 2008, and grossed $297 million on a budget of $85 million. ""Horton Hears a Who!"" was the third Dr. Seuss feature film adaptation, the first adaptation to be fully animated, and the second Dr. Seuss film starring Jim Carrey after ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas"" (2000). A dust speck is dislodged from its obscure place and sent adrift through the Jungle of Nool. At the same time, Horton the Elephant, the jungle's eccentric nature teacher, takes a dip in the pool. The dust speck"
"Mountain. Two twin brothers, the children of a weizza from the Himalayas and a naga (dragon) princess were abandoned by their mother as eggs on the western base of Zinkyaik Mountain, where there was an island not far from the beach. Tissa, while walking and meditating, found the eggs and carried them back to his monastery at Zinkyaik Mountain. That night, Tissa saw a signal light from Mount Zwegabin from his brother, Thiha. Thiha met Tissa and Tissa gave him one of the eggs. Thiha took one egg to Mount Zwegabin, and one remained with Tissa. Tissa's egg hatched first"
"Elephants Can Remember Elephants Can Remember is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in 1972. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. This was the last Christie novel to feature either character, although in terms of publication it was succeeded by ""Curtain: Poirot's Last Case"", which had been written in the early 1940s but published last. The novel is notable for its concentration on memory and oral testimony. While attending a literary luncheon, Ariadne Oliver finds herself approached by a woman named Mrs Burton-Cox, whose son Desmond is"
"custom is unheard of amongst elephants. She-Snorts A female elephant. She-Snorts is an alluring, droll, sensual elephant, with the most powerful sense of smell in the family, and the mother of Date Bed. Not used to being given responsibilities, she finds herself the matriarch of her family herd after all of her older family members are killed in a slaughter. As the novel progresses, she becomes more grave and severe, and more single-mindedly focused on finding her daughter. Pregnant with another calf, she bargains with Me-Me the cheetah to show them the way to the Safe Place in exchange for"
"for it to hatch, he is exposed to the elements, laughed at by other jungle animals, captured by hunters, forced to endure a terrible sea voyage, and finally placed in a traveling circus. However, despite his hardships and Mayzie's clear intent not to return, Horton refuses to leave the nest because he insists on keeping his word, often repeating, ""I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred per cent!"" The traveling circus ends up visiting near Mayzie's new Palm Beach residence. She visits the circus just as the egg is due to"
"The Magician's Elephant The Magician's Elephant is the thirteenth book written by American author Kate Dicamillo. It was released on September 8, 2009. The young orphan Peter Augustus Duchene has many questions, but there is one he wishes most answered: ""Is his sister still alive? And if so, how can he find her?"" The answer he finds from the fortuneteller in the market square of the city of Baltese is one he has to learn to believe. ""An elephant! An elephant will lead him there!"" A recurring theme in the book is ""coming of age."" Fox plans to adapt ""The"
"his well-known pseudonym Dr. Seuss, though he also authored more than a dozen books as Theo LeSieg and one as Rosetta Stone. His books have topped many bestseller lists, sold over 600 million copies, and been translated into more than 20 languages. In 2000, ""Publishers Weekly"" compiled a list of the best-selling children's books of all time; of the top 100 hardcover books, 16 were written by Geisel, including ""Green Eggs and Ham"", at number 4, ""The Cat in the Hat"", at number 9, and ""One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish"", at number 13. In the years after"
"the magic beans he has been looking for most of his life, which can lead him to a giant's castle holding valuable golden goose eggs. When Puss tries to steal them from the outlaws' room, a female cat named Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek) interrupts, and both fail. Kitty is allied with Humpty Alexander Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis), a talking egg and Puss' long-estranged childhood friend from the orphanage where he was raised. Puss tells Kitty his origin story and of his feelings of betrayal for a youthful misadventure when Humpty tricked Puss into helping commit a bank robbery in his hometown"
"Magician's Elephant"" into a film with the help of director Martin Hynes. The Magician's Elephant The Magician's Elephant is the thirteenth book written by American author Kate Dicamillo. It was released on September 8, 2009. The young orphan Peter Augustus Duchene has many questions, but there is one he wishes most answered: ""Is his sister still alive? And if so, how can he find her?"" The answer he finds from the fortuneteller in the market square of the city of Baltese is one he has to learn to believe. ""An elephant! An elephant will lead him there!"" A recurring theme"
"""Yegg"" is a slang term for a burglar or safecracker. The same play-on-words was used in the title of the 1947 Bugs Bunny cartoon, ""Easter Yeggs"". This cartoon also appeared in the magazine Time Inc. (owned by Time Warner), which would later spun off on June 6, 2014. When Porky finds a golden egg in his henhouse, a goose reveals to the audience that he laid it. However, knowing full well what happened to the goose that laid the golden egg (a reference to Aesop's Fables), the goose tells Porky that Daffy is responsible. After reading about how much Daffy"
"the story of a farm boy named Eragon, who finds a mysterious stone in the mountains. Not knowing the stone's origin or worth, he attempts to use it as payment to a butcher. A dragon he later names Saphira hatches from the stone, which was really an egg. When the evil King Galbatorix finds out the general location of the egg he sends the Ra'zac to acquire it. By that time Saphira had been growing for a while and takes Eragon to the Spine after Ra'zac appear in their village, Carvahall. Eragon and Saphira are forced to flee from their"
"and, in 1992, it was telecast as an episode on the animated BBC anthology series, ""The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends"". The tale begins in a farmyard which is home to a duck called Jemima Puddle-duck. She wants to hatch her own eggs, but the farmer's wife believes ducks make poor sitters and routinely confiscates their eggs to allow the hens to incubate them. Jemima tries to hide her eggs, but they are always found and carried away. She sets off along the road in her poke bonnet and shawl to find a safe place away from the farm"
"The first of the two eggs hatched on April 7, 2012 and the students named the eagle Luke, the second egg hatched on April 10 and it was named Lilly. During this time, it was clear that the female eagle was a not the original Lucy, because Larry was teaching her how to feed the chicks and everything made it seem like Lucy was a first time mother. Luke and Lilly ended up fledging in the summer of 2012. Around November 2012, Lucy encountered a terrible injury to both of her feet, but due to the worse injury on the"
"group, but he is slightly crippled and becomes a liability as the story progresses, although he is fiercely defended by his family. Hail Stones A young male elephant, and the last surviving member of the She-D family, Hail Stones joins Mud and her companions on their search for the White Bone and Date Bed. He acts somewhat like Date Bed or a young Torrent, as he speaks eloquently and tries to comfort the She-S family even after the death of his entire family, without complaint. Mud finds herself drawn to him. Swamp A young male elephant. He is rather antisocial"
"Heffalump A Heffalump is a type of elephant-like character in the Winnie the Pooh stories by A. A. Milne. Heffalumps are mentioned, and only appear, in Pooh and Piglet's dreams in ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" (1926) and seen again in ""The House at Pooh Corner"" (1928). Physically, they resemble elephants; Shepard's illustration shows an Indian elephant. They are later featured in the animated television series ""The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"" (1988–1991), followed by two animated films in 2005, ""Pooh's Heffalump Movie"" and ""Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie"". Although the fifth chapter of ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" is titled ""In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump"", Piglet"
"it one of its ""Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children"". In 2012, it was ranked number 61 among the ""Top 100 Picture Books"" in a survey published by ""School Library Journal"" – the fourth of five Dr. Seuss books on the list. The book has been adapted as a 1966 animated TV film starring Boris Karloff, a 2000 live-action feature film starring Jim Carrey, and a 2018 computer-animated film starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The Grinch is a bitter, grouchy, cave-dwelling creature with a heart ""two sizes too small"" who is living as a hermit on the snowy Mount Crumpit, a steep"
"The Elephant of Surprise The Elephant of Surprise is a young adult novel by Brent Hartinger, the fourth volume in The Russel Middlebrook Series, which was published in March 2013. The book continues the saga of Russel Middlebrook, his friends Min and Gunnar, and his former boyfriend, Kevin Land. The book also introduces new characters, who are followers of the movement known as Freeganism. The title of the book is a malapropism for the common expression ""the element of surprise."" Russel, Gunnar and Min use it to refer to the unexpected in life. Such surprises can be devastating, but they"
"Uncle Beazley The statue is named after a dinosaur in the children's book ""The Enormous Egg"" (1956), by Oliver Butterworth, and a film adaptation televised on the ""NBC Children's Theatre"" in which the statue appeared. The book and the film, which aired on April 18, 1968, tell the story of a boy who finds an enormous egg laid by a hen that hatches a baby triceratops. The triceratops, named Uncle Beazley, becomes too big, so the boy brings him to the Smithsonian Institution. Beazley is first kept at National Museum of Natural History, but is eventually transferred to the National"
"Dragon's Egg Dragon's Egg is a 1980 hard science fiction novel by Robert L. Forward. In the story, Dragon's Egg is a neutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth, and inhabited by cheela, intelligent creatures the size of a sesame seed who live, think and develop a million times faster than humans. Most of the novel, from May to June 2050, chronicles the cheela civilization beginning with its discovery of agriculture to advanced technology and its first face-to-face contact with humans, who are observing the hyper-rapid evolution of the cheela civilization from orbit around Dragon's"
"Gal. Elephants Can Remember Elephants Can Remember is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in 1972. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. This was the last Christie novel to feature either character, although in terms of publication it was succeeded by ""Curtain: Poirot's Last Case"", which had been written in the early 1940s but published last. The novel is notable for its concentration on memory and oral testimony. While attending a literary luncheon, Ariadne Oliver finds herself approached by a woman named Mrs Burton-Cox, whose son Desmond"