My Favorite Picture Book Blogfest

He is Sam

He is Sam-I-Am

That Sam-I-Am

That Sam-I-Am

We do so LOVE

that Sam-I-Am

Do you like

Green Eggs And Ham?

I do so love them,

Sam-I-Am.

I do so love

Green Eggs And Ham!

Would you read it

Here or there?

I had to read it

here or there.

I had to read it

anywhere.

My son even loved

Green Eggs And Ham

We do so LOVE them

Sam-I-Am.

Would you read it

in a house?

Would you read it

to a mouse?

We’d love to read it

in a house.

We’d love to read it

to a mouse.

We loved to read it

here or there.

We’d love to read it

anywhere.

We so LOVE Green Eggs And Ham.

We so love them, Sam-I-Am.

Would you read it

in a box?

Would you read it

to a fox?

Yes in a box.

Yes to a fox.

Yes in a house.

Yes to a mouse.

We would read them here or there.

We would read them anywhere.

We would read Green Eggs And Ham.

We so LOVE them, Sam-I-Am.

Would you? Could you?

in a car?

Read it! Read it!

Here it is!

We would so,

could so,

in a car.

You may like them.

You will see.

You may like it in a tree?

In a tree?

We would so, could so in a tree!

Even in a car! You silly bee!

We would read it in a box.

We would read it to a fox.

We would read it in a house.

We would read it to a mouse.

We would read it here or there.

We would read it anywhere.

We so LOVE them, Sam-I-Am.

A train! A train!

Could  you, would you

on a train?

Definitely on a train! And in a tree!

In a car! Sam! You silly bee!

We definitely could read it in a box.

We definitely could read it to a fox.

We will read it to a mouse.

We will read it in a house.

We will read it here or there.

We will read it anywhere!

We so LOVE it, Sam-I-Am.

Say!

In the dark?

Here in the dark!

Would you, could you in the dark?

Hmmmm, maybe we could

in the dark.

Would you, could you,

in the rain?

We would so, could so in the rain.

In the dark. On a train.

In a car. In a tree.

We so love them, Sam, you see.

In a house. In a box.

To a mouse and to a fox.

We will read them here or there.

We will read them anywhere!

Do you like

Green Eggs And Ham?

Of course

we like them,

Sam-I-Am!

Could you, would you

to a goat?

We so would,

so could,

to a goat!

Would you, could you

on a boat?

We can so, can so, on a boat!

We will so, will so, to a goat.

We will read it in the rain.

We will read it on a train.

In the dark and in a tree!

In a car! You silly bee!

We will read it in a box.

We will read it to a fox.

We will read it in a house.

We will read it to a mouse.

We will read it here or there.

We will read it ANYWHERE!

We so love

Green Eggs

And Ham!

We love them so

Sam-I-am

You do so love them

So you say.

Try it! Try it!

And you may

try it and you may I say!

Sam!

If you will let me be

We will read it.

You will see.

And so we read it.

Again and again.

We read it in a boat.

We read it to a goat.

We read it in the rain.

In the dark and on a train.

In a car and in a tree.

It was so good, so good you see!

We read it in a box.

We read it to a fox.

We read it in a house.

And we read it to a mouse.

We read it here and there.

We read it ANYWHERE!

We do so love

Green Eggs And Ham!

Thank you!

Thank you,

Sam-I-Am!

So fun to say, even today! Dr. Suess has always been one with whimsical, magical words and phrases. It has always been fun to have them roll off the tongue! It was one of my son's favorite, must-read books. He learned to "read" it, and The Foot Book, at the age of 2. I think it was one of the deciding books that made him actually learn to read. By the time he was 3, he was reading by himself, really reading! But he didn't enjoy this book so much by himself. He loved it when I read it with him. He learned my expressives (is that a word??), my tone, my character I tried to embed into Sam, and that other guy. He truly had fun with it. 

It was hard to read, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and still keep the same tone, characterizations and fun going. 

I did not like it, Sam-I-Am. 

But in the end, when all was said and done, and he was reading books before he went into pre-school, to find out none of the other kids knew how to read yet, to find out in Kindergarten that he was reading at a 3rd grade level, to find out in First Grade he was accepted into the gifted program, well....it was worth all those readings....over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. 

Hey, it's really not so bad...

this reading here and there
this reading everywhere!
as long as we do it
together!

To this day, I quote it when I just don't like something and things don't go my way. :) 

"I do not like it Sam-I-Am" So fun, and a cute way to remind us of our childhood!

This is my contribution to Megan Bickel's "My Favorite Picture Book" Blogfest.