Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham, Lowrey herself (who also wrote stories about children in her home state of Texas) remained in relative obscurity until her death. While the book has outsold many other famous books such as Dr. As of 2001, The Poky Little Puppy was the single all-time best-selling hardcover children's book in the U.S., having sold nearly 15 million copies. The Poky Little Puppy is a story about five puppies of undetermined breed. The copyright was renewed in October 1969. It was first published in 1942 as one of the first twelve books in the Simon & Schuster series Little Golden Books. The Poky Little Puppy is a children's book written by Janette Sebring Lowrey and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren.
