![]() ![]() Geisel, who had harbored strong anti-Japan sentiments before and during World War II, changed his views dramatically after the war and used this book as an allegory for the American post-war occupation of the country. ![]() The book's main theme, "a person's a person no matter how small", was Geisel's reaction to his visit to Japan, where the importance of the individual was an exciting new concept. The Whos would later reappear in How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. It is his second book to feature Horton the Elephant with the first being Horton Hatches the Egg. Geisel began work on Horton Hears a Who! in the fall of 1953.
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