5/19/2023 0 Comments Green eggs and ham story![]() As a result, Seuss penned Green Eggs and Ham using only these 50 words: 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. And to make things interesting, Seuss’s publisher, Bennett Cerf, bet the author $50 that he couldn’t write a book using only 50 of those words. Seuss biographer Brian Jay Jones noted on Twitter, the children’s publishing imprint that would publish the story - “Bright and Early Books for Beginning Beginners” - used a simple vocabulary of only 182 words that the youngest readers could read and understand. Yes, one of the great children’s books of all time was written to win a bet. ![]()
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