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From: redjen@psu.edu (Jennifer S. Mullen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: CITE: _Green Eggs and Ham_ Bet
Date: 29 Mar 1996 19:49:27 GMT

Ingalls, Zoe. "The Cat in the Hat, The Butter Battle Book, and other soupcons of Seuss!" _Chronicle of Higher Education_ 28 July 1993. pp B4-5.

"Of the 47 books he published, _The Cat in the Hat_ is probably Ted Geisel's most famous. _The Cat in the Hat_ was his response to a revolutionary article by John Hersey in _Life_ magazine, "Why Can't Johnny Read?" which called for revamping the way schoolchildren learned to read. Geisel used a predetermined list of 223 words to create an engagin alternative to Dick and Jane. (Three years later, Geiel wrote _Green Eggs and Ham_, his all-time bestseller, on a bet from his publisher, Bennet Cerf. Cerg challenged Geisel to write a book using only 50 different words)."

T. _The Cat in the Hat_ was written from a predetermined list of 223 words. T. Theodore Geisel wrote_Green Eggs and Ham_, using only 50 words, on a bet from his publisher, Bennett Cerf.
U. Cerf never paid him the $50. [*]

[*]I'm still looking into that one. It's possible it was just included in the money paid to Seuss by the publisher anyway.

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