Green Eggs and Ham"What can I say? Dr Suess just brings out the playful joyous side in me. And isn’t that the whole point? Dr Suess makes books that are fun to read to kids and that kids can easily start to read themselves! Dr Suess made me love reading as a child and now 30 years later Dr Suess’s magic works on my daughter as she won’t put these books down.
And since my daughter is a picky eater, Green Eggs and Ham has a particularly relevant message (TRY food before declaring you hate it) that actually worked once to convince my daughter to try something new." Amazon Review
Green Eggs and Ham is one of Seuss’s "Beginner Books", written in a very simple vocabulary for beginning readers. The vocabulary of the text consists of just 50 different words and was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss’s publisher. that Seuss (after completing The Cat in the Hat using 236 words) could not complete an entire book without exceeding that limit. The 50 words 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 Green Eggs and Ham is one of the best-selling books of all time with more than 8 million copies sold. Here is the full text of the book: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss I am Sam
Sam I am
That Sam-I-am!
Than Sam-I-am!
I do not like
that Sam-I-am!
Do you like green eggs and ham?
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
Would you like them here or there?
I would not like them here or there.
I would not like them anywhere.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
Would you like them in a house?
Would you like them with a mouse?
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
Would you eat them in a box?
Would you eat them with a fox?
Not in a box.
Not with a fox.
Not in a house.
Not with a mouse.
I would not eat them here or there.
I would not eat them anywhere.
I would not eat green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
Would you? Could you? In a car?
Eat them! Eat them! Here they are.
I would not, could not, in a car.
You may like them. You will see.
You may like them in a tree!
I would not, could not in a tree.
Not in a car! You let me be.
I do not like them in a box.
I do not like them with a fox.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
A train! A train! A train! A train!
Could you, would you, on a train?
Not on a train! Not in a tree!
Not in a car! Sam! Let me be!
I would not, could not, in a box.
I could not, would not, with a fox.
I will not eat them with a mouse.
I will not eat them in a house.
I will not eat them here or there.
I will not eat them anywhere.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
Say!
In the dark? Here in the dark!
Would you, could you, in the dark?
I would not, could not, in the dark.
Would you, could you, in the rain?
I would not, could not, in the rain.
Not in the dark. Not on a train.
Not in a car. Not in a tree.
I do not like them, Sam, you see.
Not in a house. Not in a box.
Not with a mouse. Not with a fox.
I will not eat them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere!
You do not like green eggs and ham?
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
Could you, would you, with a goat?
I would not, could not, with a goat!
Would you, could you, on a boat?
I could not, would not, on a boat.
I will not, will not, with a goat.
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!
I do not like them in a box.
I do not like them with a fox.
I will not eat them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them ANYWHERE!
I do not like green eggs and ham!
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
You do not like them? So you say.
Try them! Try them! And you may.
Try them and you may, I say.
Sam!
If you will let me be,
I will try them.
You will see.
Say!
I like green eggs and ham!
I do! I like them, Sam-I-am!
And I would eat them in a boat.
And I would eat them with a goat…
And I will eat them in the rain.
And in the dark. And on a train.
And in a car. And in a tree.
They are so good, so good, you see!
So I will eat them in a box.
And I will eat them with a fox.
And I will eat them in a house.
And I will eat them with a mouse.
And I will eat them here and there.
Say!
I will eat them ANYWHERE!
I do so like green eggs and ham!
Thank you! Thank you, Sam-I-am! Book information: Reading age: 4+ Word count: 769 Number of unique words: 50, Word list Number of pages: 65 Year: 1960 Sales (millions): 8 Links: Amazon, Wikipedia, YouTube, Goodreads, LibraryThing, Common Sense Media, Printables, Lexile Similar books: | Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Age: 4+ Year: 1963 Pages: 40 Word count: 332 Unique word count: 135 Sales (millions): 20 More... | | The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Age: 2+ Year: 1969 Pages: 26 Word count: 227 Unique word count: 106 Sales (millions): 35 More... | | The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Age: 4+ Year: 1964 Pages: 57 Word count: 621 Unique word count: 158 Sales (millions): 5 More... | | The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss Age: 4+ Year: 1957 Word count: 1,621 Sales (millions): 10 More... | | Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown Age: 2+ Year: 1947 Pages: 18 Word count: 131 Unique word count: 54 Sales (millions): 16 More... | | Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne Age: 5+ Year: 1926 Pages: 176 Word count: 22,671 | | Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. Age: 2+ Year: 1967 Pages: 26 Word count: 196 Unique word count: 32 Sales (millions): 7 More... | | One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss Age: 3+ Year: 1960 Word count: 1,308 Sales (millions): 6 More... | | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst Age: 5+ Year: 1972 Pages: 32 Word count: 762 Unique word count: 289 More... | | If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff Age: 4+ Year: 1985 Pages: 40 Word count: 291 More... | | The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter Age: 3+ Year: 1902 Pages: 72 Word count: 975 Unique word count: 383 Sales (millions): 45 More... | | Oh, The Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss Age: 4+ Year: 1990 Pages: 56 Word count: 917 Sales (millions): 5 More... | | Corduroy by Don Freeman Age: 5+ Year: 1968 Word count: 704 More... | | Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. Age: 2+ Year: 1989 Pages: 36 Word count: 212 Unique word count: 110 Sales (millions): 1 More... | | The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Age: 2+ Year: 1962 Word count: 316 Unique word count: 158 More... | | The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka Age: 5+ Year: 1989 Pages: 32 Word count: 572 More... | | Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book! by Dr. Seuss Age: 2+ Year: 1963 Pages: 24 Word count: 392 Unique word count: 133 Sales (millions): 5 More... | | Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman Age: 3+ Year: 1960 Pages: 72 Word count: 698 Sales (millions): 4 More... | | Love You Forever by Robert Munsch Age: 4+ Year: 1986 Pages: 32 Word count: 792 Unique word count: 166 Sales (millions): 8 More... | | Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey Age: 3+ Year: 1941 Pages: 72 Word count: 1,149 More... | More books: 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 See also: Classic Children Books Classic School Age Children Books Classic Books for Teenagers Classic Children Books by Age Best-selling Books of All Time The Benefits of Reading for Kids Why Learn English Language? Shortest Books Shortest Books (unique words) Longest Books Best way to learn English How NOT to Learn English! CVC Words What you need to know to learn a new language? Why I forget what I learned? Vocabulary Size More...
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