At the time, children were reading primers like “ Fun with Dick and Jane“, which are anything but fun and don’t inspire kids to want to read outside of what they are required.Īs a response to this, William Spaulding, director of Houghton Mifflin’s educational division, challenged Geisel to “write a story that first-graders can’t put down” and asked that it be limited to 225 distinct words from a list of 348 words that were selected from a standard first grader’s vocabulary list. John Hersey, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, wrote a piece in a issue of Life magazine titled, “Why Do Students Bog Down on First R? A Local Committee Sheds Light on a National Problem: Reading.” which was extremely critical of school primers. Geisel’s first successful children’s book, Cat in the Hat, also was the result of a challenge to write a book in under a certain number of words. Green Eggs and Ham went on to be Geisel’s best selling work, so he made out on it anyways. Theodore Geisel, winning the bet by producing one of his most popular works Green Eggs and Ham using exactly 50 unique words, Cerf never paid up. The bet was made in 1960 with Bennett Cerf, the co-founder of Random House, and was for $50 (about $382 today). Seuss wrote “Green Eggs and Ham” on a bet that he couldn’t write a book with fifty or fewer distinct words. We welcome your feedback at ShopWithUs usmagazine.Today I found out Dr. Shop With Us operates independently of the advertising sales team. This does not preclude our decision about whether a product or service is featured or recommended. In addition, Us Weekly receives compensation from the Official 60 Years of green eggs and ham 1960 2020 dr.seuss T-shirt and I love this manufacturers of the products we write when you click on the link and then purchase the product stated in an article. Shop With Us team can get free products from manufacturers for testing.

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