Science Verse

Very very clever! There’s a teachable lesson easily explained on every page with hilarious verse and illustrations. Adults may recognize ‘Casey At the Bat’, and Robert Frost poems…but in scientific rhyme. Kids ought to love this book.

Kiddos love the book. They instantly made connections to The Math Curse! With the book, we have numerous jumping off points to extend learning and the Scientific Method!

My daughter loves this book - she loved it when she was 5, and still loves it, two years later. A very witty book, with some really advanced vocabulary & scientific ideas told in a very funny & engaging way. Not for faint of heart, though - it covers evolution ("Grandpa was an ape"), anatomy ("A poem ugly as a spleen"), parasites ("Mary had a little worm"), etc. Illustration are a perfect match for this "poetry of science".

I wanted a book for 5th graders, but this book is for younger children. Still great poetry.

BUY THIS!! If you are a science teacher of any grade you need to buy this immediately. It is great for younger kids because it's all poetry and fun pictures. It's also great for older students because it gets them thinking outside the box on topics they might not be as interested in. Literacy is so important in every subject, this is such a great book!

This is a delightful book that teaches as well as entertains through its silly and imaginative verses. Some are parodies of famous poems. A nice book for the child who is interested in science, or even those who are not. Excellent artwork.

Amazingly fun book. My 3 year old memorized all the poems in here because of the audio CD that came with it. Does it still come with it?? One day over dinner he started reciting them all to our utter amazement. I knew he was listening to them but didn't know he had them memorized. A year later when "applying" to kindergarten, the teacher asked what his favorite book was that mom read lately. He asked her if she wanted to hear some science poetry....five minutes later she was in stitches. It's funny to hear a child say these poems with their child-like pronunciation of words. Thanks for the CD. It added a lot to the fun of this book.

I keep getting more because I give them away. I give them away because whoever I read this to or reads it themselves like it so much! Not for toddlers but 7/8 year olds and up enjoy this. Especially during/after a "poetry unit".

As described

Doesn't really teach anything about science. Very little content overall. The illustrations are also disappointing. Just a short series of classic poems butchered to add some science-y sounding words.

“耳をすませば、あらゆることが科学の詩として聞こえてきます” という先生の言葉を真に受けた、男の子がハマった世界を、JON&LANEの名コンビが ちょっと毒のあるユーモアで描いています。 食物連鎖、進化、宇宙の誕生、原子 等々、自然科学をネタにした詩がいっぱい。 中には、どっかで読んだ詩に似ているものがあるなあ、と思ったら、案の定、それぞれ 有名な詩のパロディになっているようです。英語圏では、馴染みの詩のようですが、 それを知らないと、楽しさに深みがでないところが、ちょっと残念に思いました。 付録のCDでは、作者２人の朗読が聞けて、得した気分になれます。

This was among one of the best books gor 10 years old children and had awards to its name. Very high rating on amazon dot com. So i bought it And i regret it so much. Its just a collection of clumsily written bad rhymes. Its just tukabandi and nothing else. The number of so called poems is also so less.

Purchased this as a gift to my biologist wife. She appreciated the humour of the puns and jargon set to popular children's poems and rhymes. The illustrations are well done too and fit the bill.