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Edgar Allan Poe's pie : math puzzlers in classic poems
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- Summary
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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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- Creator
- J. Patrick Lewis ; illustrated by Michael Slack
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 37 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780547513386, 0547513380
- OCLC
- ocn733546816
- "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
Subjects
- Mathematics -- Juvenile poetry.
- Children's poetry, American.
- American poetry -- Adaptations.
- English poetry -- Adaptations.
- Mathematical recreations -- Juvenile literature.
- Children's poetry, American.
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- Mathematical recreations.
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