Green Eggs and Ham
is a book by
Dr. Seuss
. It was first published in
1960
.
Publishers Weekly
says that it had sold fourth-most copies of any children's book ever as of
2001
.
[1]
In this story, Sam-I-Am pesters Guy-Am-I to eat green eggs and ham. However, Guy refuses, insisting that he does not like them until the end. It received an animated adaption in
1973
.
Green Eggs and Ham
is one of Seuss's "Beginner Books", written using very simple words for beginning readers. There are only fifty different words, of which 49 have only one
syllable
. The one exception is "anywhere". The fifty words used are:
a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you
. 45 of the 50 words (all words except
box
,
car
,
Sam
,
train
and
try
) are
Germanic
.
- ↑
"All-Time Bestselling Children's Books"
.
December 17, 2001, Publishers Weekly.