green eggs and ham

     

Green Eggs an Ham is a best-selling and critically acclaimed book by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1960. As of 2001, according to Publishers Weekly, it was the fourth-bestselling children's book of all time. It was also released in the Living Books series.

Trivia about green eggs and ham

  • Dr. Seuss wrote this book to win a bet that he couldn't write a book using only 50 different words
  • Sam-I-Am knows Universal has a cafe named for this "colorful" title breakfast
  • "I will not eat them in the rain. I will not eat them on a train. Not in the dark! Not in a tree! Not in a car! You let me be!"
  • On St. Patrick's Day, many restaurants serve up this dish, straight out of a Dr. Seuss book
  • Book which contains the lines "Would you? Could you? In a car? Eat them! Eat them! Here they are."
  • Seuss classic that includes the line "I would not, could not, in a car"
  • An editor bet that Seuss (would not) could not write a book using 50 words or less; the result was this story
  • Seen here is the cover illustration from this classic children's book
  • It begins, "I am SamI am SamSam I am"
  • This Seuss work says, "You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may."