Lewis, J. Patrick.

Edgar Allan Poe's pie : math puzzlers in classic poems / J. Patrick Lewis ; illustrated by Michael Slack. - Boston : Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. - 37 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

"Harcourt Children's Books."

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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Mathematics--Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
American poetry--Adaptations.
English poetry--Adaptations.
Mathematical recreations--Juvenile literature.
Children's poetry, American.
Mathematical recreations.
American poetry.
Mathematics--Poetry.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Humor.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Mathematics.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Poetry / Humorous.


Puzzles and games.
Adaptations.
Juvenile works.
Poetry.
Children's nonfiction.
Poetry.
Puzzles and games.

JUV PS 3562 .E9465 / E34 2012