Hungry for Engineering
Poems to Gnaw On
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry and Whiteside
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2024
- Category
- General, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781554556427
- Publish Date
- Oct 2024
- List Price
- $23.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Reading age: 5 to 8
Description
Run, Marble, Run
First I made my marble GO.
I watched its speedy DROP.
When it reached the inclined plane.
I knew it wouldn’t STOP.
It twirled around the LOOPTY-LOOP
and then I saw it FALL,
landing on the DOWNWARD ramp,
boosting my glass ball...
The newest addition to the series that includes Hungry for Math, Hungry for Science and Hungry for the Arts!
Join Handy Randy, Spendosaur, and House Mouse, the hungriest engineers around, in Hungry for Engineering: Poems to Gnaw On–another delectable book in the Hungry for…series! Use wedges, inclined planes, pulleys, and screws to design, innovate, and construct a luxurious bug hotel, a long-and-fun marble run, and a mighty wind tower strong enough to blow you over the ocean. So set your table and get ready to build and problem-solve like never before with this feast of scrumptious, engineering poems.
About the authors
Kari-Lynn Winters is the author of Jeffrey and Sloth (2007), a picture book about the daunting task of overcoming writer's block, and The Meaning Maker, a children's play about reading strategies which is currently being toured throughout the Lower Mainland. A graduate of Canada's National Theatre School, she is currently performing with a Vancouver children's theatre group, The Tickle Trunk Players.
Kari has taught a range of students in Canada and the United States, including pre-school, special education, primary, intermediate, high school, and now university teacher education.
She is currently completing her Ph.D. in the Language and Literacy Department at UBC. Her research interests are children's literature, print literacy, and multimodal forms of learning.
Kari's website is www.kariwinters.com.
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Lori Sherritt-Fleming is a natural and accomplished author, educator and performer. Her first picture book was aRHYTHMetic, published in 2009. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Born in Edmonton, Alberta, David Whamond is the award-winning illustrator of When Nature Calls by Maria Birmingham. He lives in Calgary, Alberta.
