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

Author/creator Lewis, J. Patrick
Other author Slack, Michael, 1969- illustrator.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston : Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Description37 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

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.
Abstract 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.
General note"Harcourt Children's Books."
LCCN 2011025735
ISBN9780547513386 (hbk.)
ISBN0547513380 (hbk.)

Availability

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Joyner TRC Nonfiction 811 L5871E ✔ Available Place Hold
Joyner TRC Nonfiction 811 L5871E ✔ Available Place Hold