Dr. Seuss Presents: Green Eggs & Ham

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The star of this collection is narrator Marvin Miller, who gives an unparalleled recitation of Green Eggs and Ham (and who makes Cat in the Hat/If I Ran the Zoo and Fox in Socks/Horton Hatches the Egg come alive on separate CDs). Taking a colleague up on a bet, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) wrote and published this tale--arguably his best known--in 1960 with the constraint of using a mere 50 words. And what an amazing 50 words they are! Strung together with utile charm, energy, and pleasantly tripping repetition, Green Eggs and Ham stands up as one of Seuss's masterworks. Also included on the CD are rhyming parables of greed, honesty, and making amends in the dramatizations of Yertle the Turtle, The Big Brag, and, finally, Bartholomew and the Oobleck, starring the young hero who many will recognize from the better known Bartholomew Cubbins and the 500 Hats. This disc, along with its companion reissues, is a wang dang doodle of linguistic and auditory fun! --Paige La Grone

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Dr. Seuss Presents: Green Eggs & Ham
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • a bizarre but entertaining disc
  • Not just for children
 Dr. Seuss Presents: Green Eggs & Ham
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Manufacturer: Buddha
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00002EPM8
Release Date: 1999-11-09

Tracks:

  1. Green Eggs And Ham
  2. Yertle The Turtle
  3. The Rabbit, The Bear And The Zinniga-Zanniga
  4. The Big Brag
  5. Bartholomew And The Oobleck

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The star of this collection is narrator Marvin Miller, who gives an unparalleled recitation of Green Eggs and Ham (and who makes Cat in the Hat/If I Ran the Zoo and Fox in Socks/Horton Hatches the Egg come alive on separate CDs). Taking a colleague up on a bet, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) wrote and published this tale--arguably his best known--in 1960 with the constraint of using a mere 50 words. And what an amazing 50 words they are! Strung together with utile charm, energy, and pleasantly tripping repetition, Green Eggs and Ham stands up as one of Seuss's masterworks. Also included on the CD are rhyming parables of greed, honesty, and making amends in the dramatizations of Yertle the Turtle, The Big Brag, and, finally, Bartholomew and the Oobleck, starring the young hero who many will recognize from the better known Bartholomew Cubbins and the 500 Hats. This disc, along with its companion reissues, is a wang dang doodle of linguistic and auditory fun! --Paige La Grone

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars a bizarre but entertaining disc.......2001-07-26

If you have ever seen the movie "So I Married an Axe Murderer" with the scenes of Mike Myers reciting poetry, then you will have a pretty good idea of the kind of reading Marvin Miller gives to "Green Eggs and Ham" here.

I bought this disc (along with "The Cat in the Hat Songbook") as humorous Christmas present for my wife; we are both Seuss fans. While we enjoyed the songbook, which concludes with a reading of one of our all-time favorites: "The Sleep Book," this disc...and the reading of "Green Eggs and Ham" in particular, takes some getting used to.

We have come to enjoy the disc. The rest of the pieces are read pretty straightforwardly. "The Rabbit, the Bear and the Zinniga-Zanniga" is probably the best reading on the disc. It is typically Seussian in that it is both funny and instructive.

I recommend this disc on its sheer potential to be a conversation piece with those friends who won't think you're insane for listening to a beatnik reading of Dr. Seuss.

4 out of 5 stars Not just for children.......2000-01-03

Well, the three year old I know, get's right into this but as an adult, I heard Green Eggs and Ham at the ambient zone of an outdoor rave (The Gathering - Takaka, New Zealand). Great sounds and rhythm and all the amazing word games you remember.

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