 green eggs and ham is a best-selling and critically acclaimed children's book by dr. seuss (a pen-name of theodor seuss geisel), first published on august 12, 1960. as of 2001, according to publishers weekly, it was the fourth best-selling english-language children's book of all time. the story has appeared in several animated videos starting with 1973's dr. seuss on the loose: the sneetches, the zax; green eggs and ham starring paul winchell as the voice of both sam-i-am and the first-person narrating man. ==storyline== a character known as "sam-i-am" pesters an unnamed character, who also serves as the story's narrator, to sample a dish of green eggs and ham. the unnamed character refuses, responding, "i do not like green eggs and ham. i do not like them, sam-i-am." he continues to repeat this as sam follows him, encouraging him to sample them in various locations from a house to a box and a car to a tree and a train, in the dark or the rain, and on a boat, all to which the unnamed character refuses responding, "i would not like them here (current location) or there (previous location). i would not like them anywhere!" and with a variety of animals from a mouse in the house to a fox in the box and a goat who tags along on the car and the train). finally, the unnamed character gives into sam's pestering and samples the green eggs and ham, which he certainly does like after all in the end and happily responds, "i do so like green eggs and ham. thank you. thank you, sam-i-am." ==vocabulary== green eggs and ham is one of seuss's "beginner books", written in a very simple vocabulary for beginning readers. the vocabulary of the text consists of just fifty different words and was the result of a bet between seuss and bennett cerf (dr. seuss's p
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