Illustrated by Lane Smith. A kid in school (different from the Math Curse girl but she’s sitting right next to him) is told in science class that “if you listen closely you can hear the poetry of science in everything.” So he does. It’s a curse! And it’s hilarious to the reader. Some were obviously play-on-words of rymes and poems I know well, others unfamiliar. My favorite was ‘Gobblegooky’- a jumbled litany of nutrients and processed ingredients, derived from ‘Jabberwocky’. There’s a new take on ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’- all about evolution. Also ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ became about Mary carrying a parasite. And ‘Casey at the Bat’ warps into a poem about the scientific method. Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by the woods on a Snowy Evening’ turns into a roam through the solar system. And ”Twas the Night Before Christmas’ still features Santa Claus, but he sneezes the universe into something with a big bang. Even the notes in the back giving homage to the original poems transmogrified were funny. The little amoeba poem just cracked me up:
Borrowed from my sister. Read on 7/21/24.
