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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.Description: 37 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780547513386
  • 0547513380
  • 9780544456129
  • 0544456122
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JUV PS 3562 .E9465 E34 2012
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.
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.
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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.

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.

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