[.ca] Green Eggs & Ham (ISBN 0375810889)

From Amazon.com:
Young fans of the unflappable Sam-I-am will be pleased as punch to discover the plethora of flaps to lift in this 10-page board book version of the Dr. Seuss classic. Sam-I-am does his very best to convince a more finicky Seuss character to try this rather unusual delicacy. Would you? Could you? In a car? Eat them! Eat them! Here they are. You may like them. You will see. You may like them in a tree! To which the exasperated doubter replies: I would not, could not, in a tree. Not in a car! You let me be. On every page readers will find sturdy, easy-to-lift flaps behind which reside the familiar characters and lines of the unique 1960 classic--except for the last page. Here, blank spaces lurk behind the flaps, just waiting to be filled in with peel-off pictures from the accompanying sheet of silly stickers. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter

Green Eggs and Ham, 50 Word Vocabulary:
This book is extraordinarily good. This is my number one favorite book. It is the ultimate Seuss experience. Dr. Seuss wrote the story using only 50 words. I recommend the Green Eggs and Ham board game and the videos or DVDs. I also recommend the Green Eggs and Ham CD ROM game by Living Books. I have been reading reviews by customers who like the book and I agree with all their favorable reviews.

What's the other character's name?:
Just got this book last week...my 2.5 yr old LOVES it, but asks me over and over what the name of the other character is...she knows Sam-I-Am, but who is the other fellow??? I am not very familiar with Dr. Seuss's characters, does anyone out there knows?? Other than that conundrum, this book is definitely great...it's how I get her to try new things these days!

Rene's Review:
I like the book Green Eggs and Ham because it is an easy book to read.Since I don't really like to read this is an easy book to read. And what I like the most of the book is that it makes over a hundred words that rhyme. This book was written by one of the most famous authors ,Dr.Seuss.

My First Book:
Everyone remembers fondly thier first book they read on their own and this one is mine. A simple story with simple words and a simple message: try something to see if you like it or not... even if it is green eggs and ham. This is the book I introduced to my children as an attempt to get them to read aloud for the first time. While some parents may not be happy that the first words their children recognizes are "Sam-I-Am", I was quite proud when my daughters pointed out for days "Sam", "I" and "Am" wherever we went. From there, their confidence built and soon they were reading the book from cover to cover. A light book with only a handful of words to master, Green Eggs and Ham is a great beginners book.

Dr. Seuss explores the principle of "try it, you'll like it":
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 and illustrator of children's books came four days later when the Rev. Jeese Jackson read "Green Eggs and 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 and not hear Jackson's rhythm and cadences. The protagonist of "Green Eggs and Ham" expresses the fact that he does not like Sam-I-am, so when Sam-I-am asks him if he likes green eggs and ham the response is also a negative. The equating of the green eggs and ham with Sam-I-am is extended through a logical progression of places (here or there), circumstances (in a house with a mouse or in a box with a fox), to hyperbolic proportions (in a car on a boat with a goat on a train in the rain). Despite the insistence of Sam-I-am that the protagonist might enjoy the green eggs and ham if only he were to try them, it is not a compromise position is worked out (trying the green eggs and ham in exchange for end to being pestered to death) that the story reaches its climax and 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 and 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 and ham (or spinach, for example), and 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 and all conceivable circumstances.