Telling People to Stop In 90 percent of the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham, Sam is asked to try green eggs and ham. In a roundabout way, he says he isn’t interested, by saying things like, “I do not like them there; I do not like them anywhere.” In this sixty-two-page book, Sam never says, “Stop asking me.” Page after page, he’s annoyed about eating something that he has clearly stated he doesn’t like. When I read this book to my three-year-old, I immediately thought, “Why doesn’t he just shut this down by saying ‘stop’?” And guess what, around page 56, Sam agrees to eat the green eggs and
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