When Sam-I-am persits in pestering a grumpy grouch to eat aplate of green eggs and ham, perseverance wins the day, teaching usall that we cannot know what we like until we have tried it! Withhis unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures andriotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children andhelping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of thewonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK's topten favourite children's authors, Seuss is firmly established as aglobal best-seller, with nearly half a billion books soldworldwide. As the first step in a major rebrand programme,HarperCollins is relaunching 17 of Dr. Seuss's best-selling books,including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, GreenEggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. In response to consumer demand, thebright new cover designs incorporate much needed guidance onreading levels, with the standard paperbacks divided into threereading strands - Blue Back Books for parents to share with youngchildren, Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on theirown, and Yellow Back Books for older, more fluent readers to enjoy.Green Eggs and Ham belongs to the Green Back Book range.
關于Sam和Knox先生的故事，Sam想把一盤綠色的雞蛋和火腿推薦給Knox先生，可是Knox先生看到那盤綠色的火腿和雞蛋后，總是不感興趣。但最后，聰明的Sam想盡一切辦法，終于讓Knox先生同意品嘗一下。這時Knox先生才發現，原來那盤雞蛋火腿是多么好吃。這個故事告訴小朋友們要敢于嘗試新鮮事物。
《綠雞蛋和火腿》的創作源于蘇斯博士和一位朋友打賭，能否用五十個單詞寫成一個故事。于是便有了這本膾炙人口的書。故事是容易引起孩子共鳴的熟悉話題——要不要嘗試新食物。故事情節發展激烈，一個拼命勸，一個玩命躲，最后的結局出人意料。蘇斯博士的語言是節奏感很強的韻文，朗朗上口，書中所用詞匯很少，而且句子結構大量重復，只置換少量單詞，孩子一旦記住了第一句，后邊的句子很容易讀出來，讓孩子頗有成就感。
