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Book

Incredible inventions : poems

Call Number

  • J 811 INCR (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

[New York] : Greenwillow Books, 2009.

Physical Description

27 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Summary

Inventions can be big, like roller coasters, or small, like crayons. And inventors can be scientists or athletes or even boys and girls! It's hard to imagine life without Popsicles, basketball, or Band-Aids, but they all started with just one person and a little imagination. With sixteen original poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Julia Sarcone-Roach's imaginative artwork, Incredible Inventions celebrates creativity that comes in all shapes and sizes.

Contents

  • Two puzzling / Ode to blue jeans / Roller coaster / The straw--1888 / Basketball seasons / The tale of fig newton / The Ferris wheel / Take the escalator / Brushes rule / Inside the box / What to do with a popsicle / Band-aid / The signal's lament / "In here, Kitty Kitty" / Velcro / In new running shoes / Behind the inventions.

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