Talk:Dr. Seuss vs Shakespeare/@comment-27382513-20151221053143

Fun fact: When Dr Seuss released his 1957 hit The Cat in the Hat, it used 236 individual words to help children learn to read. A guy named Bennett Cerf made a bet with him that he couldn't write another children's book using less words.

Mr Cerf was wrong. Green Eggs and Ham came out in 1960, using just 50 - yes, FIFTY - individual words.