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40 pp.
| Viking |
September, 2004 |
TradeISBN 0-670-91057-0$16.99
(1)
K-3
Illustrated by
Lane Smith.
A teacher's comment ("if you listen closely enough, you can hear the poetry of science in everything") causes a boy to "start hearing everything as a science poem." Scieszka's clever verses, lampooning works by Edgar Allan Poe and others, and Smith's characteristically zany illustrations relate simple scientific concepts about topics such as precipitation and atoms. A CD of Scieszka and Smith reading the verses is included.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2004