Jump to navigation Jump to search 1960 children’s book by Dr. This article is about the book. Green Eggs and Ham is a children’s book by Dr. Seuss, first dates with goat cheese and bacon on August 12, 1960.

As of 2019, the book has sold 8 million copies worldwide. Sam-I-Am offers an unnamed man a plate of green eggs and ham. However, the man refuses repeatedly throughout the story, saying “I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am. Green Eggs and Ham is one of Seuss’s “Beginner Books”, written with very simple vocabulary for beginning readers. The vocabulary of the text consists of just 50 words and was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf, Dr.

Green Eggs and Ham was published on August 12, 1960. By 2001, it had become the fourth-best selling English-language children’s hardcover book yet written. Woman reading and showing Green Eggs and Ham to children. The book has become sufficiently ingrained in the cultural consciousness that U.