In  Horton Hatches the Egg, Mazie is a lazy bird who does not like sitting on her egg. It is boring and she wants to take off and see the world. So she asks Horton, the elephant to sit on her egg while she takes a vacation to Palm Beach.
Horton sits through the fall, through the icy cold of winter and into the spring. The other animals tease him and laugh at him. Yet, he still sits on the nest and continues to say:
"I meant what I said
And I said what I meant...
An elephant's faithful
  Then hunters capture Horton and take him, the tree and egg to a circus. Horton doesn't like being a captive in the hot noisy tent, but since he is "faithful 100%", he will not leave the egg.
At the moment the egg is about to hatch, Mazie returns and wants it back.  The egg hatches and a little elephant-bird flies out to greet Horton. At the end Horton and the elephant-bird are return to their jungle home:
"Happy,
One hundred per cent!"

We enjoyed the rhyming words, funny drawings and great ending of this book.  This book teaches many important lessons and is fun too!We love this book "One hundred per cent!".