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Science verse / Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PZ7.S41267 Sc 2004 Cook copy 1 v. + audio disc
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scieszka, Jon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Miscellanea--Juvenile fiction.
- Science.
- Poetry--Juvenile fiction.
- Poetry.
- Schools--Juvenile fiction.
- Schools.
- Science--Juvenile poetry.
- Schools--Juvenile poetry.
- Children's poetry, American.
- Science--Miscellanea--Fiction.
- Poetry--Fiction.
- Schools--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Picture books.
- Sophisticated picture books.
- Occult fiction.
- Poetry.
- Echo verse.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Didactic poetry.
- Picture books for children.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cook, Lucy (donor) (Cook Collection copy)
- Cook, Richard (donor) (Cook Collection copy)
- Scieszka, Jon (autograph) (Kislak Cook Children's Book Collection copy)
- Smith, Lane (autograph) (Kislak Cook Children's Book Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [40] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2004.
- System Details:
- analog optical 1.4 m. per second Digital recording
- audio file CD audio
- Summary:
- When the teacher tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything, a student is struck with a curse and begins hearing nothing but science verses that sound very much like some well-known poems.
- Contents:
- Evolution
- Water cycle
- Lovely
- Twink
- Dino-sore
- Food chain
- Gobblebooky
- Why scientists don't write nursery rhymes
- Scientific method at the bat
- Skeletal study
- You're it
- Mini ha ha (or, the atomic joke is on you)
- What's the matter?
- Senseless lab of Professor Revere
- Amoeba
- Changes
- "Twas the night
- Astronaut stopping by a planet on a snowy evening.
- Participant:
- Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, readers on the accompanying CD.
- Notes:
- Design: Molly Leach.
- A Junior Library Guild selection.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Lucy and Richard Cook Children's Book Collection presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018.
- Kislak Cook Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Kislak Cook Collection copy has autographs of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith.
- ISBN:
- 0670910570
- 9780670910571
- 0670062693
- 9780670062690
- OCLC:
- 54500768
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