So insistent that he heard voices coming from the speck, Horton dares to opine to the jungle skeptics, “If you were way out in space and you looked down at where we live, we would look like a speck.” But unbeknownst to Horton, his theory is more real than even he can imagine. Fascinated and concerned, Horton follows the speck through the jungle until it lands on a little clover. Seuss blessed the literary world with the second work in what would ultimately become a series of prolific classics the book, Horton Hears a Who!, the story of an imaginative elephant named Horton who, on the 15th of May in the Jungle of Nool, hears a faint cry for help that seems to be coming from a speck of dust floating through the air. Seuss book read in childhood that helped mold and shape the mores we carry (or should carry) into adulthood. Seuss? For many of us, it is the tenor and theme of a Dr. Who in this world has not been touched or impacted in some manner by the works and words of Theodore Geisel aka Dr.
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