Bibliograph

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

Type

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

Responsibility statement

J. Patrick Lewis ; illustrated by Michael Slack

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

Classification