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207. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years is a children's novel written by Rachel Field and published in 1929. It won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1930. The book is told from the point of view of an inanimate doll named Hitty (short for Mehitabel), who was constructed in the 1820s and traveled around the world ...
Horton was born March 18, 1886, on Long Island to Edward Everett Horton, a typesetter / compositor in the press room for The New York Times, and his wife, Isabella S. (née Diack) Horton. [2] His father was of English and German ancestry, and his mother was born in Matanzas Province , Cuba , to George and Mary (née Orr) Diack, natives of ...
George Moses Horton (c. 1798–after 1867), was an African-American poet from North Carolina who was enslaved until Union troops, carrying the Emancipation Proclamation, reached North Carolina (1865). Horton is the first African-American author to be published in the United States. (Phillis Wheatley 's poetry was published earlier, in the ...
Horton Hears a Who! is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss. It was published in 1954 by Random House . [ 2 ] This book tells the story of Horton the Elephant and his adventures saving Whoville , a tiny planet located on a speck of dust, from the animals who mock him.
Arianna Horton. Bill Horton (Days of Our Lives) Henry Horton (Days of Our Lives) Jennifer Horton. Jeremy Horton. Laura Horton. Lucas Horton. Maggie Horton. Marie Horton.
Plots. The four stories included in the book are as follows: "Horton and the Kwuggerbug": A Kwuggerbug lands on Horton the Elephant 's trunk and asks him to take him to his beezlenut tree, which Horton agrees to since when they get there the bug promises that Horton will get half the nuts. The journey to the beezlenut tree is quite hazardous ...
Horton Hatches the Egg. Horton Hatches the Egg is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published in 1940 by Random House. The book tells the story of Horton the Elephant, who is tricked into sitting on a bird's egg while its mother, Mayzie, takes a permanent vacation to Palm Beach.
Webb Horton House. The Webb Horton House is a 40-room mansion in Middletown, New York, United States, designed by local architect Frank Lindsey. Built from 1902 to 1906 as a private residence, since the late 1940s it has been part of the campus of SUNY Orange. This building is now known as Morrison Hall, after the last private owner, and houses ...