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Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books) (Hardcover) (精装)
by Dr. Seuss
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Classics, Ages 4-8, Children's book |
| Market price: ¥ 118.00
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¥ 98.00
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 Good for Gifts |
| MSL Pointer Review:
This book teaches the children lessons that they need to learn in life. Never be ignorant and refuse to listen to others. |
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Shirley P Johnson (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-29 00:00>
There are just some books that fill your heart with such joys and giggles that you remember them all of your life; this is one of them. How many people do not know the phrase, Sam-I-am? Or Green eggs and ham? Make a face.........but still you know you just gotta try it at least once in your life, you grab that food coloring, give a squirt, fry up that egg with your ham and you say, “Yeah! That’s good!" And for some reason for the rest of your life you are one of perhaps thousands that were convinced by one little book that green eggs and ham really are okay! Great book! Great memory! |
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Robert Schmidt (MSL quote), Honolulu, HI USA
<2006-12-29 00:00>
If you read this book once, you know the story. So why do you, and your kid, read it over, and over, and over? It is hypnotic. It is entertaining. The art is... interesting! The poetic nature of the text is soothing and charming. You can use vocal variety as you read it. Your son or daughter anticipates that next phrase, that next page. These factors interact and... Make a classic.
Interestingly, I've seen a comic opera (a "bouffe") version of Green Eggs and Ham. You know how it is going to end. Yet it is still entertaining! Ah, there is a magic formula here, repeated in many (but not all) of Dr. Seuss' books, that force a smile over a frown, and make a rainy day sunny.
First published in 1960, I would anticipate this book being on shelves in 2060 and beyond. "I do like them, Sam I am!" |
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Jenny J.J.I (MSL quote), Florida
<2006-12-29 00:00>
I have recently started collecting the Dr. Seuss books because as a child I really enjoyed them but never own them. My kids are fortunate to have these collections that they will always enjoy.
Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham" is appealing to the young and old. Children enjoy this book because it's funny and has humorous pictures, but it teaches them lessons they need to learn in life. One lesson is to "keep an open mind." Never be ignorant and refuse to listen to others.
Another is "you don't know 'til you try it." I remember my parents always telling me about new foods...especially veggies! You can't know if you like or don't like something unless you've tried it. Same goes for being good or bad at something. For example, I would never have known I had musical talent unless my parents had persuaded me to take piano lessons.
I think adults and teens would enjoy this book because although it's simple, using easily understood words, it is complex and makes you think. Green Eggs and Ham makes me wonder about how many ways we can ask the same question. "Would you, could you, will you," etc. Even though Seuss uses easy words, he makes the book come together like a puzzle. Everything ties in throughout the whole book. He interlocks phrases differently on almost every page.
The illustrations are cute and the rhymes are catchy, but like Seuss's other books The Lorax and The Butter Battle Book, there's more to it than meets the eye. It's a book about being open-minded to new things. Heck, there are some adults out there who need to learn that lesson. If your life isn't changed, at least you'll get to impress (or annoy) people by reeling of long lists of where you will not eat green eggs and ham.
It's easy to read, but it challenges the mind. |
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Samantha Smith (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-29 00:00>
Growing up this was my favorite book not only because my name is Sam and I have always been called Sam-I-Am, but because of the enjoyment I have always gotten from this book. Sam-I-Am only wanted his friend to try some green eggs and ham, but because of the way they looked he wouldn't eat them anywhere or with anything. Once he finally tried them he realized that Sam was right, they were great and he would now eat them anywhere and with anything or anyone. Dr. Seuss is a great author and I have enjoyed all of his books, but Green eggs and ham is by far my favorite one to read. I have read it to my nephew several times and he enjoys it also.
Dr. Seuss like many authors had some ups and downs with his books, but in the end has many books out there that both young and old get to enjoy and I appreciate all the work he has done. |
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Lawrance M. Bernabo (MSL quote), MN United States
<2006-12-29 00:00>
When Theodor "Ted" Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, died at the age of 87 on September 24, 1991, the best tribute of all to the beloved author and illustrator of children's books came four days later when the Rev. Jeese Jackson read Green Eggs and Ham during the Weekend Update segment of the season premier of "Saturday Night Live." That performance was so unexpectedly moving that it is impossible for me to read this classic tale for beginning readers and not hear Jackson's rhythm and cadences.
The protagonist of Green Eggs and Ham expresses the fact that he does not like Sam-I-am, so when Sam-I-am asks him if he likes green eggs and ham the response is also a negative. The equating of the green eggs and ham with Sam-I-am is extended through a logical progression of places (here or there), circumstances (in a house with a mouse or in a box with a fox), to hyperbolic proportions (in a car on a boat with a goat on a train in the rain). Despite the insistence of Sam-I-am that the protagonist might enjoy the green eggs and ham if only he were to try them, it is not a compromise position is worked out (trying the green eggs and ham in exchange for end to being pestered to death) that the story reaches its climax and resolution.
While I appreciate the importance of the idea that somebody should try something before they dismiss it (a principle that applies to not only food but theatrical releases and political candidates), I do want to point out that many years after my childhood, during which time the information would have been of prime importance, scientists established that different things do indeed taste differently to different people. So it is possible not to like green eggs and ham (or spinach, for example), and not be a repudiation of the life work of Dr. Seuss. But you do have to at least give strange food a chance before you take an absolute position against eating it under any and all conceivable circumstances. |
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