Just about every child reads Green Eggs and Ham at some point. But did you know that there are only 50 words in the whole book? The words are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.
This great fact was brought to you buy a fun article from Mental Floss Magazine (by way of CNN). Check out the fun facts from the article:
- Tony the Tiger, AKA Thurl Ravenscroft, is the voice behind "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch." He received no credit on screen, so Dr. Seuss wrote to columnists in every major U.S. newspaper to tell them exactly who had sung the song.
- Dr. Seuss actually said Yertle was a representation of Hitler. Despite
the political nature of the book, none of that was disputed at Random
House -- what was disputed was Mack's burp. No one had ever let a burp
loose in a children's book before, so it was a little dicey. In the
end, obviously, Mack burped.
- "If I Ran the Zoo," published in 1950, is the first recorded instance of the word "nerd."
Read the entire article here, buy the books here, see some fun Dr. Seuss toys and games here.
--Laura McMullan
