Customer Reviews
Buy for people you hate - By: Twangothan, 26 Oct 2007 
This is one of the most irritating books ever printed. Buy for anyone you really dislike & feel satisfied that every time they have to read it they will be driven insane by it's wittering drivel.
Seuss achieves so much with so little - By: Yi-Peng, 14 Jun 2007 
Much has been written about how Green Eggs & Ham is about leaving our comfort zone to try new things, & how it's like an allegory of telemarketeers changing their tacticsin order to sell their products. However, I would like to mention the amazing thing about how Dr. Seuss only used 50 words for this book. Seuss has come up with a hilarious story with his rhymed silliness, but this story allows us to see how the negations get compounded as this cumulative story progresses, no matter how many settings Sam-I-am persuades his client to eat his plate of green eggs & ham. This is truly an exhilarating book that should count as one of Seuss's masterpieces.
Everyone should own his entire collection!! - By: LD, 03 Jun 2007 I am not going to single out one titlein particular because each title is a gem.
Every person young & old should own the Dr Seuss collection.
My dad bought the collection for my eldest when he was 3.
Back then he used to think the stories were funny & he loved the pictures.
Now seven years old, he can see that the stories are also clever. He is understanding & pointing out the life lessons...... they are making him think! They make me think!!
I have another 3 year old now & he loves them just as much as his big brother.
They are bouncy & hypnotic, clever & funny, deep & light hearted, shaming (points the mirror sometimes), lifting & encouraging........ really, really wonderful.
Thank you Dad for giving me & my children Dr Seuss!
Green I've seen, green I've been - By: Kurt Messick, 04 Jan 2006 I would not eat Green Eggs & Ham
I would though read it, oh yes maam
Forin this tale of silly food
There is no doubt fulfilling good
Who wouldn't find it appetising?
Who could read it realising
That things aren't always what they seem
Life can sometimes be a dream
Andin that dream a wonder starts
That really strives to touch our hearts
with such a simple verse & tale
One could hardly think to fail
The premise here is most absurd
Using the most simple word
And no complex sentence structure
No moralistic high brow lecture
Just a simple tale of love
Hidden low & up above
And permeates on every page
To reach the souls of every age
Happy birthday to you this day
May you have your eggs your way
In heaven as we read below
The pleasing tale of eggs aglow
With some weird dye, an Irish egg?
I've had green beer, was it a keg?
But this should be a family verse
and green beer does become too terse
So now, dear friend, go buy the book
Open it up & take a look
You'll never be sorry, you'll never frown
This short tale won't let you down
And may you be just who you are
We're all Sam, both near & far
But we're ourselves, & this is true
This book was meant for me & you.
If Dr. Seuss is best known as the author of 'The Catin the Hat', this text is a very close second. Its simple rhyme scheme & vocabulary is a perfect exemplar of Seussian construction, making it delightful for both children & adults. The vocabulary expands from that of 'The Catin the Hat', making this almost a stealth-educational tool -- stealthin that children don't realise they're learning, & often adults don't realise that the playful use of language is educational.
This is a must for every child's library. They needn't be named Sam.
Dr. Seuss explores the principle of "try it, you'll like it" - By: Lawrance M. Bernabo, 04 May 2004 When Theodor "Ted" Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, died at the age of 87 on September 24, 1991, the best tribute of all to the beloved author & illustrator of children's books came four days later when the Rev. Jeese Jackson read "Green Eggs & Ham" during the Weekend Update segment of the season premier of "Saturday Night Live." That performance was so unexpectedly moving that it is impossible for me to read this classic tale for beginning readers & not hear Jackson's rhythm & cadences.
The protagonist of "Green Eggs & Ham" expresses the fact that he does not like Sam-I-am, so when Sam-I-am asks him if he likes green eggs & ham the response is also a negative. The equating of the green eggs & ham with Sam-I-am is extended through a logical progression of places (here or there), circumstances (in a house with a mouse orin a box with a fox), to hyperbolic proportions (in a car on a boat with a goat on a trainin the rain). Despite the insistence of Sam-I-am that the protagonist might enjoy the green eggs & ham if only he were to try them, it is not a compromise position is worked out (trying the green eggs & hamin exchange for end to being pestered to death) that the story reaches its climax & resolution.
While I appreciate the importance of the idea that somebody should try something before they dismiss it (a principle that applies to not only food but theatrical releases & political candidates), I do want to point out that many years after my childhood, during which time the information would have been of prime importance, scientists established that different things do indeed taste differently to different people. So it is possible not to like green eggs & ham (or spinach, for example), & not be a repudiation of the life work of Dr. Seuss. But you do have to at least give strange food a chance before you take an absolute position against eating it under any & all conceivable circumstances.
