How Many Words In Green Eggs And Ham

1960 children'southward book by Dr. Seuss

Green Eggs and Ham

Author	Dr. Seuss
Encompass creative person	Dr. Seuss
Country	U.s.a.
Language	English language
Series	Beginner Books
Genre	Children's literature
Publisher	Random House The Living Books Company
Publication date	August 12, 1960
ISBN	978-0-394-80016-5
OCLC	184476
Preceded by	One Fish, 2 Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Followed past	The Sneetches and Other Stories

Green Eggs and Ham is a children'due south book past Dr. Seuss, commencement published on August 12, 1960. As of 2019, the book has sold 8 million copies worldwide.^[1] The story has appeared in several adaptations, starting with 1973's Dr. Seuss on the Loose starring Paul Winchell every bit the vocalism of both characters, and more recently an animated TV series of the same proper noun on Netflix (which likewise gave the originally unnamed character Sam pesters the name "Guy-Am-I").

Plot [edit]

Sam-I-Am offers an unnamed man a plate of green eggs and ham. All the same, the homo refuses multiple times throughout the story past saying, "I practise not like green eggs and ham. I exercise not similar them, Sam-I-Am." Sam further asks him to consume that food in diverse locations (business firm, box, auto, tree, train, nighttime, rain, boat) and with a few different animals (mouse, fox, goat), simply is still rebuffed. Finally, the man accepts the offering and samples the greenish eggs and ham. When he declares that he likes them, he happily says, "I do then like green eggs and ham. Thank you. Thank you, Sam-I-Am."

Background [edit]

Green Eggs and Ham is i of Seuss's "Beginner Books", written with very simple vocabulary for get-go readers. The vocabulary of the text consists of but 50 words^[two] and was the issue of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss'due south publisher,^[ii] ^[3] ^[iv] that Seuss (after completing The Cat in the Chapeau using 236 words)^[v] could not complete an entire volume without exceeding that limit. The 50 words are a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, automobile, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, adept, light-green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, allow, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, pelting, Sam, say, run into, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, y'all. Out of the fifty words, "anywhere" is the only discussion used that has more than one syllable.^[2]

Reception and cultural impact [edit]

Green Eggs and Ham was published on August 12, 1960.^{[half dozen]} ^[7] By 2001 information technology had become the fourth-best selling English-language children's hardcover book even so written.^[8] ^[nine] As of 2014 the book has sold 8 million copies. In 1999 the National Education Association (NEA) conducted an online survey of children and teachers, seeking the 100 most popular children's books. The children ranked Green Eggs and Ham 3rd, merely in a higher place some other Dr. Seuss book, The Cat in the Hat.^[x] The teachers ranked information technology fourth.^[11] Teachers ranked information technology fourth again in a 2007 NEA poll.^[12] Scholastic Parent & Child magazine placed information technology #7 among the "100 Greatest Books for Kids" in 2012.^[13] That same yr, it was ranked number 12 among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a survey published by School Library Journal – the commencement of five Dr. Seuss books on the listing.^[14]

Woman reading and showing Light-green Eggs and Ham to children.

The book has become sufficiently ingrained in the cultural consciousness that U.S. District Court Judge James Muirhead referenced Green Eggs and Ham in his September 21, 2007, court ruling subsequently receiving an egg in the mail from prisoner Charles Jay Wolff who was protesting confronting the prison diet. Muirhead ordered the egg destroyed and rendered his judgment in the mode of Seuss.^[15] ^[xvi] Senator Ted Cruz read the book on the floor of the United States Senate during his filibuster over the funding of Obamacare.^[17] Musician will.i.am has stated that his moniker is inspired by the story.^[18]

On September 28, 1991, following Dr. Seuss' death before that week, Jesse Jackson recited an excerpt of Green Eggs and Ham on Saturday Night Live during a special tribute segment.^[19]

Adaptations [edit]

TV, moving picture, and phase [edit]

In 1973, "Dark-green Eggs and Ham" became the third of the iii Theodor Geisel stories, joining The Sneetches and The Zax, to be adapted into the television special Dr. Seuss on the Loose, which featured a connecting narration by The True cat In The Lid. The cartoon was voiced by Paul Winchell. The book was besides released as a Beginner Book Video on VHS which included The Cat In The Hat in 1994.

The story was featured as one of the segments brought to life in stage-play fashion in the 1994 Telly-film In Search of Dr. Seuss.

It is adapted as function of Seussical equally a number during drape call.

A 2d hand-fatigued animated telly series based on the book, Dark-green Eggs and Ham premiered on Netflix on Nov eight, 2019. It was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and A Very Proficient Production and distributed by Warner Bros. Television. The cast features Michael Douglas every bit Guy-Am-I (the unnamed grapheme in the original book) and Adam DeVine equally Sam-I-Am with Ellen DeGeneres serving as executive producer. The fox (named Michael and voiced past Tracy Morgan), mouse (nicknamed Squeaky by Sam and voiced by Daveed Diggs), and goat (just named The Goat and voiced by John Turturro) appear every bit secondary recurring characters.^[20] In December 2019, it was announced that the series was renewed for a second season, which was titled The Second Serving.

Parodies [edit]

The Animaniacs episode "The Warners and The Beanstalk" parodies both Greenish Eggs and Ham and Jack and The Beanstalk. After Ralph T. Guard in the role of a behemothic captures Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, the Warners effort to go him to eat 'gold eggs and meat', but the giant refuses each time, maxim, "I does non like gold eggs and meat. It'southward y'all who I would like to swallow".^[21] The opening lines are spoofed by Ernest Hemingway every bit "I am pitiful. Lamentable, I am. I would not swallow blueish figs and lamb" in "Papers for Papa".^[22]

The Johnny Bravo episode "Cookie Crisis" has Little Suzy as a Buttercup Scout trying to get Johnny to buy her cookies. Johnny is on a strict nutrition and attempts to avoid her, merely she keeps following him at every turn.^[23]

The Green Eggs & Sham alive anthology past English punk rock band Sham 69, released in 1999, parodies the book title itself.

The Regular Show episode title "Pam I Am" is a pun on the character Sam-I-Am, only non the story itself.^[24]

Video games [edit]

The Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs And Ham video game cover

Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs and Ham is a unmarried-thespian, handheld video game for Game Male child Advance based on the 1960 book of the aforementioned name published by NewKidCo and released in November 2003.^[25] ^[26] The book was besides made into a Living Books adaptation for the PC in 1996, and there were like differences to reflect the new media such as Sam-I-Am sings his opening lines.

Selected translations [edit]

לֹא רָעֵב וְלֹא אוֹהֵב (Lo ra'ev ve-lo ohev, 1960, Hebrew ISBN 9789652294661)
Huevos verdes con jamón (1960, Castilian, ISBN 1880507013)
Groene eieren met ham (1960s, Dutch, ISBN 9024002966)
火腿加綠蛋 (Huǒ tuǐ jiā lǜ dàn, 1992, Chinese, ISBN 9573211254)
Prosciutto e uova verdi (2002, Italian, ISBN 880902446X)
Virent ova! Viret perna! (2003, Latin, ISBN 0865165556)
Kto zje zielone jajka sadzone? (2004, Polish, ISBN 8372781249)
Les œufs verts au jambon (2009, French, ISBN 9781569756881)
Grünes Ei mit Speck (2011, German, ISBN 9783596854417)
Ovos Verdes e Presunto (2016, Portuguese, ISBN 9789898831989)
Grønne egg og Skinke (March 2021, Norwegian)

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^ Bird, Elizabeth (July half dozen, 2012). "Height 100 Pic Books Poll Results". A Fuse #8 Production. Weblog. School Library Journal (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com). Archived from the original on Dec four, 2012. Retrieved August xix, 2012.
^ "Judge makes 'Dark-green Eggs and Ham' ruling". NBC News.
^ "ORDER the egg filed by the plaintiff is to be destroyed re: 55 Motion for Contempt, injunction", Wolff v. NH Department of Corrections et al (Example i:2006cv00321), September 18, 2007, Filing 56
^ Fitzpatrick, Meagan (September 25, 2013). "Why Ted Cruz read Light-green Eggs and Ham in the U.Southward. Senate". CBC.
^ Solomon, Deborah (January 20, 2011). "Questions for Will.i.am". New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
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^ Andreeva, Nellie (Apr 29, 2015). "Netflix Picks Up 'Green Eggs and Ham' Animated Series From Ellen DeGeneres". Borderline . Retrieved April thirty, 2015.
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^ Appointment with an Antelope/Did Y'all See a Bull Run by Here?/Cookie Crunch at IMDb
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^ Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs and Ham at Metacritic