![]() ![]() ![]() Kids have way too much fun reading his books to be aware of the lasting messages they carefully implant. The Teaching Children Philosophy website says Green Eggs and Ham “raises the question of the role that experience plays in the formation of our beliefs.” Green Eggs and Ham, like many of Geisel’s books, takes a valuable lesson and wraps it inside a fantastical yarn. To date it has sold over 200 million copies. Despite the book’s success, Cerf never made good on the bet. It went on to be the most popular of all his books. Geisel took the challenge and created Green Eggs and Ham using precisely fifty words. Seuss) that he couldn’t write a children’s book using fifty or fewer distinct words. In 1960 the co-founder of Random House, Bennet Cerf, bet Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham was written on a bet. ![]()
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