Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss, 1960
A stubborn refusal, a relentless host, and fifty words that drum a whole argument into your head.
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss writes in a drumbeat you can hear in your head, and these two books use it for very different arguments. «Green Eggs and Ham» is a stubborn standoff that keeps circling back on itself, while «The Lorax» is quieter and sadder, a fable told by a ruined inventor to a child. Start with «Green Eggs and Ham» if you want the pure rhythm and the joke, or with «The Lorax» if you want the same bounce carrying a story about a forest and a last seed.
Feels like humor, hope and death.
Start with Green Eggs and Ham.
Theodor Geisel published as Dr. Seuss; his first children's book was rejected by 27 publishers before Vanguard Press accepted it in 1937.
The pleasure of refusing something before you've tried it.
I would not like them here or there.I would not like them anywhere.I do not like green eggs and ham.I do not like them, Sam-I-Am. Books by Dr. Seuss
The Lorax
Dr. Seuss, 1971
A ruined inventor tells a child how his greed stripped a forest bare, and hands him the last seed. A rhyming fable about caring before it's too late.
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