# Green Eggs and Ham

**Author:** Dr. Seuss
**Lexile:** 210L
**Grade range:** Grades K–2
**Age range:** 4–7
**First published:** 1960
**Page count:** 62
**Genre:** Picture Book / Beginner Reader
**ISBN-13:** `9780394800165`
**ISBN-10:** `0394800168`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/green-eggs-and-ham
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Sam-I-Am relentlessly pitches green eggs and ham to a reluctant narrator until he relents and discovers he likes them. Seuss wrote the book on a 50-word-vocabulary bet with his publisher; the result is one of the most-assigned K-1 early readers in US schools.

## Themes

- persistence
- open-mindedness
- trying new things

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix A — K read-aloud](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grade 1 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)

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