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Jon Scieszka's Poetry As A Science Poem

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While sitting in the classroom listening to his teacher, a boy who gets zapped with a course of science verse. From that moment on, he starts hearing everything in verse as a science poem. What follows is a series of twenty-one poems on different scientific topics that parody rhymes, songs, and famous poems. The poems cover a wide range of topics, from precipitation, the food chain, and dinosaurs to atoms, planets, and the Big Bang. Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have collaborated many times before and are very familiar to many young and adult readers. Their books are always shocking, full with witty humor and hysterical illustrations. The layout of this book is very diverse and eclectic. While some pages are completely occupied by the
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