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Green Eggs and Ham
by
Dr. Seuss
fantasy in Hardcover edition that was published by Random House for Young Readers on 1988 and has 62 pages.
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Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Sneetches and Other Stories, Horton Hatches the Egg & Horton Hears a Who!, The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, The Lorax, Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!, Daisy-Head Mayzie, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, The King's Stilts, Scrambled Eggs Super!, Bartholomew and the Oobleck, Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories, You're Only Old Once!, My Many Colored Days, McElligot's Pool, If I Ran the Circus, Sleep Book, I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories, I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
A child’s beginning reader of great charm and fun.
My Take
Lol, it’s a parade of O Sam-I-Am with an unhappy father annoyed by this child. An irrepressible child poking back. Sam is all the children who annoy us, even as Sam is merely pushing his father into trying something. In the most tiresome, troublesome, bothersome way.
That scene in which Dad looks with dismay at the green egg on the end of his fork, all the shipwrecked passengers staring on with anticipation and awe…lol…
The rhyming in this is great fun, and the kids will love all the silliness as well.
I never did get around to reading the Dr. Seuss books when I was little, and now I’m making up for it. Partly as research for the children’s book I’m writing now.
The Story
It’s a persistent Sam-I-Am who wants his father to try this delectable breakfast.
The Characters
Sam-I-Am is a young lad with an irrepressible urge who collects all sorts of characters as he chases his father all over the house, the yard, the countryside.
The Cover and Title
The cover has a bright orange background with the black outlined title in white as is the plate of green ham and two fried eggs with green yolks sitting upon it. There’s a Who all in white with black detailing bending over the plate.
The title is a simple thing, just try a taste of Green Eggs and Ham to please Sam-I-Am.
