Not long after publishing “The Cat in the Hat” at 225 words, Bennett Serf challenged Seuss to see if he could write a book using even FEWER words. Seuss was able to deliver and win the bet – “Green Eggs and Ham” uses exactly 50 words!
Oh, and in case you were wondering what those words are, here is the list: 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, and you.
Another interesting Dr. Seuss fact: Yertle the Turtle, the turtle that orders other turtles to stack on top of each other, was actually based on Adolf Hitler! Despite the strong political message, the only thing that bothered the publishers about the book was the fact that a character burps in it. There used to not be burping in children's books.
A list of 10 Dr. Seuss facts.
Oh, and in case you were wondering what those words are, here is the list: 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, and you.
Another interesting Dr. Seuss fact: Yertle the Turtle, the turtle that orders other turtles to stack on top of each other, was actually based on Adolf Hitler! Despite the strong political message, the only thing that bothered the publishers about the book was the fact that a character burps in it. There used to not be burping in children's books.
A list of 10 Dr. Seuss facts.
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