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J. Patrick Lewis, former U.S. Children's Poet Laureate and author of Take Two! A Celebration of Twins and World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays You've Never Heard Of, among many others, had written Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Math Puzzlers in Classic Poems, illustrated by Michael Slack. In Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Math Puzzlers in Classic Poems, not only does Lewis parody poems by greats like
November 19th, National Sloth Day
Three-Toed Sloth
He bats around a luna moth,
He counts up all his toes,
He wears the smiles of the sloth
That everybody knows.
He races to the tallest limb-
.16 miles per hour
(The fastest ever time for him),
And looks down from his tower
In the rain forests above Brazil
To watch the world below.
If he could speak, the sloth would shout
National Hippo Day, February 15th
Why I'm Late for School
This hippopotamus thinks I'm a stool.
I wish he'd let me up to go to school.
If he squatted on my finger or one hand,
One knee or elbow, I could understand.
But head to toe? That makes it awful hard
To have a conversation with the lard!
Though not as hard as telling Mr. Bruce
My teacher, the old hippo-on-the-loose-
June 14th, National Skunk Day
If the skunk did not exist,
Then the skunk would not be mist.
From:
World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays
You've Never Heard Of
by J Patrick Lews, illustrated by Anna Raff
November 19th, National Sloth Day
Three-Toed Sloth
He bats around a luna moth,
He counts up all his toes,
He wears the smiles of the sloth
That everybody knows.
He races to the tallest limb-
.16 miles per hour
(The fastest ever time for him),
And looks down from his tower
In the rain forests above Brazil
To watch the world below.
If he could speak, the sloth would shout
From all
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World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays You've Never Heard Of by J Patrick Lewis, Children's Poet Laureate, illustrated by Anna Raff really IS a book of poems
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World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays You've Never Heard Of by J Patrick Lewis, Children's Poet Laureate, illustrated by Anna Raff really IS a book of poems about
National Hippo Day, February 15th
Why I'm Late for School
This hippopotamus thinks I'm a stool.
I wish he'd let me up to go to school.
If he squatted on my finger or one hand,
One knee or elbow, I could understand.
But head to toe? That makes it awful hard
To have a conversation with the lard!
Though not as hard as telling Mr. Bruce
My teacher, the old hippo-on-the-loose-
