It is the wonderfully quirky character of Sam-I-am that creates the astoundingly crazy ride Dr Seuss leads us on in this early reader picture book. Sam-I-Am is very persistent in trying to convince his grumpy grouch roommate to eat a plate of
Green Eggs and Ham. The riotous rhyming of Dr Seuss follows Sam-I-am in tempting the Grouch in all different locations with all different characters to eat the Green Eggs and Ham. The Story was written on a bet and the bet was to create a story with as little as fifty early reader words. The success of Dr Seuss's bet is the culmination of one of the best Children's picture books every written. In fact it is the fourth best selling picture book of all time!
The 50 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.
- Publication Date: 1960
- Genre: Children's Picture Book 2-4 yrs
- Language: English
- Author: Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
- Illustrator: Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
The 50 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.
Love Dr Seuss now and when I was a kid. Had The Cat in The Hat alphabet book twice. The first one I read so much the cover fell off. I wish I still had it - can you still buy it? Children's literature is important for their development, simple images with rhyming text are the building blocks for reading and writing, remembering the earliest form of writing was big pictures painted on a cave wall, probably conected to a song.
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