Memorial Day afternoon we went to see the newish, animated movie version of the Dr. Seuss book "Horton Hears a Who," the tale of the elephant who discovers that there's Mayor Horton and a whole world of Who's within a flower - or a "speck" - in the jungle and the kangaroo and comrades who try to wipe out the little world. A somewhat veiled story of promoting tolerance/diversity - and a little questioning authority - the movie attracted mainly kids (including at least one bigger kid - our own) and their parents. We missed the beginning and I missed the music video-type segment at the end. But you don't have to miss all of it (with apologies to REO Speedwagon's Keven Cronin)- just click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N12QDWhtgqE
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Horton Hears a Who
Memorial Day afternoon we went to see the newish, animated movie version of the Dr. Seuss book "Horton Hears a Who," the tale of the elephant who discovers that there's Mayor Horton and a whole world of Who's within a flower - or a "speck" - in the jungle and the kangaroo and comrades who try to wipe out the little world. A somewhat veiled story of promoting tolerance/diversity - and a little questioning authority - the movie attracted mainly kids (including at least one bigger kid - our own) and their parents. We missed the beginning and I missed the music video-type segment at the end. But you don't have to miss all of it (with apologies to REO Speedwagon's Keven Cronin)- just click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N12QDWhtgqE
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When Penny and Jacob were here last summer we went to Talla. Little Theatre production of Horton. Jacob had not heard the story, although he owns a number of more modern Dr. Seuss books. After they left, I ordered him two of Seuss' oldest books, including Horton. When the books arrived, he wouldn't let his mother read them to him. Instead, he took them off to his room to read them to himself--one of the first times (maybe the very first) that he read independently. I'm sure the pictures and his memory of the play helped a bit.
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