Green Eggs and Ham facts for kids
| Author | Dr. Seuss |
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| Cover artist | Dr. Seuss |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Beginner Books |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Publisher | Random House The Living Books Company |
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Publication date
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August 12, 1960 |
| ISBN | 978-0-394-80016-5 |
| OCLC | 184476 |
| Preceded by | One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish |
| Followed by | The Sneetches and Other Stories |
Green Eggs and Ham is a book by Dr. Seuss. It was first published in 1960. Publishers Weekly says that it had sold fourth-most copies of any children's book ever as of 2001.
Words
Green Eggs and Ham is one of Seuss's "Beginner Books", written using very simple words for beginning readers. There are only fifty different words, of which 49 have only one syllable. The one exception is "anywhere". The fifty words used 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. 45 of the 50 words (all words except box, car, Sam, train and try) are Germanic.
Images for kids
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Woman reading and showing Green Eggs and Ham to children.
