Green Eggs and Ham

 -Green Eggs and Ham-

-by: Dr. Seuss-

Green Eggs and Ham is a children’s book by Dr. Seuss, first published on August 12, 1960. As of 2016, the book has sold 8 million copies worldwide.

The story follows an unnamed character who does not like green eggs and ham and his adversary Sam-I-Am who wants him to eat it. The story becomes a refrain as Sam persistently follows his rival through an assortment of locations (in a house, in a box, in a car, in a tree, on a train, in the dark, in the rain, on a boat) and dining partners (a mouse, a fox, and a goat). The character finally gives in and tries the dish, just to make Sam “let him be”, and finds it quite tasty, happily responding, “I do so like green eggs and ham. Thank you. Thank you, Sam-I-am.”

-Recipe for Green Eggs and Ham-

Over the course of his career, Dr. Seuss published more than 60 books. Some of his more well-known works include How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss’s ABC, The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who!, Are You My Mother, Fox in Socks, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and Oh the Places You’ll Go.

Dr. Seuss’ first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, was rejected 27 times before it was finally published by Vanguard Press in 1937.

A major turning point in Dr.Seuss’s career came when, in response to a 1954 LIFE magazine article that checked children’s reading levels, Houghton Mifflin and Random House asked him to write a children’s book using 220 vocabulary words. 

The resulting book, The Cat in the Hat, was published in 1957 and was described by one critic as a “tour de force.” The success of The Cat in the Hat cemented Dr.Seuss’s place in children’s literature.

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