A review by shighley
Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Math Puzzlers in Classic Poems by J. Patrick Lewis

3.0

This book struck me as too contrived. It's a very clever premise, but I don't think kids would appreciate the parodies of the poems. Sometimes I felt the problems were a bit confusing. You could have students do something similar; take a "famous" poem and rewrite to include a story problem, even illustrate it. I felt like the "Robert Frost's Boxer Shorts" was included just to acknowledge middle school humor. The illustrations are very good.