Dr Seuss Presents: Green Eggs & Ham

Dr. Seuss | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 9, 1999)
• Original Release Date: November 9, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Buddha
• ASIN: B00002EPM8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #303,657 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

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

Product Description

A wonderful collection that spotlights the good doctor's magical way with words and music. Includes such brain and tongue twisters as Green Eggs and Ham; Yertle the Turtle; The Rabbit, the Bear and the Zinniga-Zanniga; The Big Brag , and Bartholomew and the Oobleck . Memorable rhymes, stories and songs for the kid in us all!

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great!, August 21, 2010

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Christine E. Kunzang "Lettuce Dance" (MT, USA) - See all my reviews
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A great alternative to kiddie music in the car. Also a nice "quiet time" listen.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for new readers, February 8, 2010

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One of my son's favorite Dr. Seuss stories come to life! Great to follow along with book, teaches inflection when reading. A good alone-time activity that's better than just sitting in front of TV when mom has other things to do!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Works for car rides with small children. Interesting rhythm and sounds., January 12, 2010

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This set of Dr. Seuss stories is helpful for shorter car rides. The music and rhythm on the first story, Green Eggs and Ham, is interesting, and our 3-year-old likes it. However, it does tend to remind one of a "rave," as another reviewer says, so I will refrain from giving another "rave review."

The other stories are also helpful--and it has struck me more by listening to them than by actually reading them to children that Dr. Seuss tried to have a moral to his stories.

It actually helps me to appreciate Seuss more to listen to his stories and not to have to see his illustrations, as I cannot get away from the deeply "Freudian" faces of his characters (they all have noses and chins that, well, remind the viewer of other things).

All that being said, however, and despite the morality he attempts, I have yet to see a person of color in a Seuss book. Except for the one in Mulberry Street--but he is just there because he "eats with sticks."