Incredible inventions

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Inventions can be big, like roller coasters, or small, like crayons. And inventors can be scientists or athletes or even boys and girls! It's hard to imagine life without Popsicles, basketball, or Band-Aids, but they all started with just one person and a little imagination. With sixteen original poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Julia Sarcone-Roach's imaginative artwork, Incredible Inventions celebrates creativity that comes in all shape...

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Children's poetry, American

Inventions Juvenile poetry

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ISBN:

9780060872465
9780060872458
0060872462
0060872454

Edition:

First edition

Description:

27 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Incredible inventions

Contents:

Two puzzling / by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Ode to blue jeans / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Roller coaster / by Joan Bransfield Graham
The straw--1888 / by Drew Lamm
Basketball seasons / by John Sullivan
The tale of fig newton / by Sandra Gilbert Brüg
The Ferris wheel / by Elizabeth Upton
Take the escalator / by Katherine O'Connell George
Brushes rule / by Constance Andrea Keremes
Inside the box / by Ann Whitford Paul
What to do with a popsicle / by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Band-aid / by J. Patrick Lewis
The signal's lament / by Alice Schertle
"In here, Kitty Kitty" / by Marilyn Singer
Velcro / by Maria Fleming
In new running shoes / by Fran Haraway
Behind the inventions

LCCN:

2008003830

Control Number:

450355

Other Authors:

Hopkins, Lee Bennett
Sarcone-Roach, Julia

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