Science Verse

Enjoyed by readers of age: 9 to 12

Read the most by: boys and girls

Amoeba Style
Do not tease a wee amoeba / By calling him a her amoeba / And don't call her a him amoeba / And never he a she amoeba. / 'Cause whether his or hers amoeba, / They too feel like you and meba.

What if a boring lesson about the food chain becomes a sing-along 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, the team who created Math Curse, could make science so much fun.