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Edgar Allan Poe's pie, math puzzlers in classic poems, J. Patrick Lewis ; illustrated by Michael Slack

Label
Edgar Allan Poe's pie, math puzzlers in classic poems, J. Patrick Lewis ; illustrated by Michael Slack
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
poetry
Main title
Edgar Allan Poe's pie
Oclc number
733546816
Responsibility statement
J. Patrick Lewis ; illustrated by Michael Slack
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader AR, LG, 5.4, 0.5, 150401.
Sub title
math puzzlers in classic poems
Summary
Borrows themes from famous poems and flips them on their head to create humorous verses and riddles in a collection of math-based problem-solving parodies
Table Of Contents
Edgar Allan Poe's apple pie -- Edward Lear's elephant with hot dog -- Walt Whitman's web-covered shoe -- Emily Dickinson's telephone book -- Lewis Carroll's fish and chips -- Hilaire Belloc's crackerjack yak -- Robert Frost's boxer shorts -- Eleanor Farjeon's math sub -- A.A. Milne's spooky garden -- William Carlos Williams's pizza -- Langston Hughes's train trip -- Ogden Nash's buggy rugs -- John Ciardi's shark dentist -- Shel Silverstein's hippo-po-tah-tum -- Prose about the poets
Target audience
juvenile
resource.variantTitle
Math puzzlers in classic poems
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