He does not like them in a house, with a mouse, in a box, with a fox, on a train in the rain or anywhere else. Geisel could and did, to tell the story of Sam-I-Am, who loves green eggs and ham, and an unnamed protagonist who most assuredly does not. After its runaway success, the publisher bet Dr Seuss (real name Theodor Geisel) that he could not write another for even younger readers using just 50 – The Cat had 236 – of the most basic words. The Cat in the Hat was written to offer something more interesting than the deathly dull Janet and John primer series available in the US at the time, still using only the prescribed vocabulary that children six and up were expected to know. I was, and ever more shall be, firmly on the side of the fish.įortunately, the streaming service has chosen to drink from a more unexpected Seussian source: Green Eggs and Ham. The rebellious feline in the stripy chapeau, and the bedlam brought about by him and his vile henchmen Thing One and Thing Two, bordered on the malevolent. I was a child who thought the idea of a tiger coming to tea was frighteningly anarchic enough. I f Netflix had adapted Dr Seuss’s most famous book, The Cat in the Hat, I would have had to recuse myself.
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