Green Eggs and Ham

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.^[1] In this story, Sam-I-Am pesters Guy-Am-I to eat green eggs and ham. However, Guy refuses, insisting that he does not like them until the end. It received an animated adaption in 1973.

Green Eggs and Ham

Author	Dr. Seuss
Cover artist	Dr. Seuss
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Beginner Books
Genre	Children's literature
Publisher	Random House The Living Books Company
Publication date	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

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.