What if a boring lesson about the food chain becomes a sing-aloud celebration about predators and prey? A twinkle-twinkle little star transforms into a twinkle-less, sunshine-eating-and-rhyming-Black Hole? What if amoebas, combustion, metamorphosis, viruses, the creation of the universe are all irresistible, laugh out loud poetry? Well, you're thinking in science verse, that's what. And if you can't stop the rhymes the atomic joke is on you. Only the amazing talents of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith could make science so much fun.

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised by the Parents' Choice Award. It was recognised in the Grades 3-5 category by the Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award. It also was recognised by the Buckaroo Book Award. It was recognised in the Poetry category by the Beehive Award. Also it was recognised in the Illustrator category by the Connecticut Book Award. It was recognised by the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award. It was recognised by the Rhode Island Book Awards.

There are 48 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2004 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Jon Scieszka is best known for his bestselling picture books, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! and The Stinky Cheese Man . He is also the founder of guysread. com and a champion force behind guyslisten. com, and was the first National Ambassador of Young People's Literature. He lives in Brooklyn. Lane Smith is the creator of It's a Book , It's a Little Book, Grandpa Green and A Perfect Day . In 2017 he won the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for There Is a Tribe of Kids . Lane Smith and his wife, the designer Molly Leach, live in a small town in rural Connecticut, USA.