The Random House people – that is, the publishers of Green Eggs & Ham – are celebrating this half century of fifty words with a "HAM It Up" video contest: if you make a video of yourself and/or your kids acting out a scene from the book, you could win cash, art, and a year’s supply of (not green) ham.
The details of the contest can be found on Seussville, but get cracking! Video can be submitted until 11/3. Voting starts 10/5. And the winners will be announced on 11/15.
And because you might need help remembering all of the words, Random House provided me with a copy of the book to give away to one of you lucky people.
So I will eat them in a box.
And I will eat them with a fox.
And I will eat them in a house.
And I will eat them with a mouse.
And I will eat them here and there.
Say! I will eat them ANYWHERE!
I do so like
green eggs and ham!
Thank you!
Thank you, Sam-I-am!
(Nobody paid me for this post, though I did get a second copy of the book for my own use.)
10 comments:
But would you, could you in a tree?
I love green eggs, but not ham. Had eggs with arugula pesto and cheese recently. Yum!
i love green eggs and ham. have never quite loved The Cat in the Hat as much. always feels too long.
love most Seuss, actually.
I think that was Seuss's challenge: to write a book using only 50 basic words. He did it and then some.
My incredibly witty husband once read "The Cat in the Hat" out loud to an adult cabaret audience. They were enraptured.
Another 50 year old...I am in some fine company;)
If I get chosen, send it on to someone else -- but I wanted to throw in that a friend and I used this book for dramatic duo reading in a high school speech contest. Just to show that the possibilities are endless! :-)
Wonder if people who keep kosher don't read this.
Because no matter what color the eggs, the ham is still trayf.
I will not eat them with fox in socks, or on the A train to the Bronx, or even underneath the docks at sunset when the big gull squawks....
;-)
I did not know any of those facts. Amazing! I have to say: when the kids were little, I dreaded reading the Seuss books. Once is fun. Twice is endearing. But when it got to the 100th times? Kill me now please! (Ok, just kidding) Just please don't tell me that they are making a movie based on this book and by doing so, ruining this beloved childhood favorites for many...
(p.s. There are 2 copies of this book in my house already :-) )
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