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

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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

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Description	37 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Note	"Harcourt Children's Books."
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.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR LG 5.4 0.5 150401.
Subject	Mathematics -- Juvenile poetry.
	Children's poetry, American.
	American poetry -- Adaptations.
	English poetry -- Adaptations.
	Mathematical recreations -- Juvenile literature.
	American poetry.
	Mathematical recreations.
	Mathematics -- Poetry.
	Mathematical recreations.
	American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
	Children's poetry, American. (OCoLC)fst00856347
	English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
	Mathematical recreations. (OCoLC)fst01012120
	Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01012163
Genre/Form	Adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01423910
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Added Author	Slack, Michael, 1969- illustrator.
Added Title	Math puzzlers in classic poems
ISBN	9780547513386 (hardback)
	0547513380 (hardback)
	9780544456129 (paperback)
	0544456122 (paperback)

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