Dr. Seuss !

 

Green Eggs and Ham, the critically acclaimed 1960 book was born out of a $50 wager between Ted Geisel and his Random House Publisher, Bennet Cerf, who bet he couldn't write an articulate, entertaining book using only fifty words.

  
a dark house on them
am do I or there
and eat if rain they
anywhere eggs in Sam train
are fox let say tree
be goat like see try
boat good may so will
box green me thank with
car ham moue that would
could here not the you


When Bennett Cerf heard Ted's first reading of the book, he seemed dazed, shaking his head over the clear triumph of "Green Eggs and Ham."  In the year 2000, Publisher's weekly ranked the book the fourth best selling English-language children's book of all time.
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50th Anniversary of "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss!
 

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