Green Eggs and Ham: Now a Netflix TV Series!

Excellent

I always wanted these books as a child, bought them countless times for friends children and now I can buy them for my own. My little boy started a bedtime routine at 4 months so I picked up a few books for Christmas and this was number one of the Dr Seuss books on my list. At 7 months we've been reading for a while now and although he cant understand the story yet, my baby boy has been absolutely facinated since an early stage with looking at the bright colourful pages and watching me read. Great addition to any library and for all ages to enjoy.

GREEN EGGS came before the famout Cat. That, as a 5-year-old, was the sequence in which I encountered The Master. Even at that tender age, I somehow knew that no one wielded a dip-pen (not a fountain pen) with greater skill than the cartoonist from Springfield, Mass. Years, and dozens of nibs and pens later (including the Esterbrook used by his contemporary, Charles Schulz), I was none the wiser as to how Seuss managed that impossible combination of anarchic, even violent line and masterly control. It remains a mystery. Even cartoonists I admire, like the late great Terry Willers, never even attempted the broad, sweeping line that lent the reckless Cat — or the arguably more subversive Sam-I-Am — such a force-of-nature uncontrollability. Much emphasis has been placed on the didactic value of his rhyming system. Indeed, at the height of the many mid-1960s battles between the phonetic and word-recognition schools of thought, no better evidence could be offered for the phonetic partisans his memorable couplets: “Would you eat it with a fox? Would you eat it in a box?” While Seuss remains, in absolute terms, a master, as draughtsman and surreally comic writer, he also triumphs by comparison. Peers of his time, and respected writers of ours, never quite manage the always-present, and often emphasised sense of violence and anarchy which is the forbidden pleasure of childhood. Some don't even try: the Care Bears mentality — everything anodyne, everyone caring and sharing — is, paradoxically, more subversive than The Great One's frank contempt for such priggishness. There's a naughty child in all of us. By having the Cat, or Sam-I-Am, play out that role to the full, the better part of ourselves is left to tidy our rooms and finish our vegetables. Well, most of the time...

Everything is perfect

A fun read, bought for a four year old who understood the story.

It arrived in perfect condition, if my post office was open a little longer I could've picked it up earlier, but still arrived quicker than I thought. My 14 week old son loves it, so does my 13 year old daughter, and their dad is the one who convinced me to buy it. Would buy Dr Seuss's other books thanks to this one 😀

My 5 year old daughter loves Dr Seuss, we have most of his books and read them over and over, she finds them hysterically funny! She is beginning to read sections of this book herself too; the word repetition is great for her learning as well as creating a fun rhythm and it really boosts her confidence knowing she can read more than the assigned school reading books.

I had heard that Dr Seuss was great but found that this book was rather thin. The characterisation was generally weak and there was little or no back story. I struggled to understand what the motivations and desires of Sam, the principal character, were. He seems driven, no obsessed, to force his friend to eat food that is clearly rotten. Ultimately his friend, who appears to have no name, is worn down by Sam's persistence to the point that he actually eats the rotten food and declares that he actually likes it. I have struggled to determine whether this is a an attempt by the learned doctor to make a statement about the extent to which modern society wastes food,the risks to society of food security in a booming global population or whether it as allegory about the power of advertising to make trick us into liking products we neither like, nor desire. I found no cross references to any validatory research papers and I am therefore troubled that when my son is old enough to read this book that he will be at risk of misunderstanding the message that the Dr is trying to put across. I had been thinking of buying Dr Seuss's Sleep Book for my own insomnia but now feel that this may just be full on pseudoscience.

Good value for money

A classic. What's not to love??

Perfect gift for friends baby shower. This is identical to the "Green Eggs and Ham " book I had as a child. Very impressed that I could get a hard cover version.

Lo compré para leérselo a mi hija y se acostumbre al segundo idioma.

Ne passez pas à côté de ce classique, chef d'oeuvre de littérature enfantine, s'adressant aux tout juste lecteurs, d'où la répétition des mots, avec juste quelques variantes. Amusez vous à le lire à voix haute pour goûter aux subtilités phonétiques que Dr Seuss maîtrise si bien, et chers profs d'anglais qui passez par là, cet ouvrage est excellent au collège, on peut même en faire une petite pièce de théâtre, un petit film. Il y en a de nombreux exemples sur Y**T**e faits par de grands élèves Outre-Atlantique, où Dr Seuss est un Dieu! ENJOY!!