Carol Diggory Shields is a poet, a humorist, and a librarian - the perfect qualifications for reducing immense bodies of. .

Carol Diggory Shields is a poet, a humorist, and a librarian - the perfect qualifications for reducing immense bodies of knowledge into a very few lines of extremely funny verse. Grateful teachers and students can direct fan letters to her in Salinas, Cal. Richard Thompson is a political cartoonist whose work appears regularly in the Washington Post and US News & World Report. This is the first book he has illustrated for children. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife, Amy, and their two young boys.

Extracted from unreadable tomes, reduced to its essence, served up in hilarious poetry by Carol Diggory Shields, and garnished with off-the-wall drawings by Richard Thompson, these 41 poems will make another science class completely unnecessary. No guarantees on grades, though!.

Carol Ann Shields, CC OM FRSC (June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the . Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada. Shields was born Carol Ann Warner in Oak Park, Illinois. She studied at Hanover College Indiana, where she became a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

Carol Diggory Shields was inspired to write SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE DINOSAUR STOMP after "being called a Nagosaurus by my five-year-old," she admits

Carol Diggory Shields was inspired to write SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE DINOSAUR STOMP after "being called a Nagosaurus by my five-year-old," she admits. I started playing with the idea of partying dinosaurs who were scientifically accurate (more or less), and somehow in the prehistoric ooze of my brain, SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE DINOSAUR STOMP took shape. Her rocking prehistoric party proved a hit with b Carol Diggory Shields was inspired to write SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE DINOSAUR STOMP after "being called a Nagosaurus by my five-year-old," she admits.

BrainJuice: American History, Fresh Squeezed!: Handprint Books. Carol Diggory Shields. Her rhyming verse is generally snappy and pointed, as in "Verbless" ("So if conjugation should give you a pain,/You'll notice you even need verbs to complain") or "Sentence Romance" ("They added a conjunction, and when the time was ripe,/They had a little clause, of the independent type").

Science, Fresh Squeezed! by Richard Thompson and Carol Diggory Shields. General science never stops You have to learn earth science, space science, life science, chemistry, and physics - and that's way too much But before you administer hot compresses to the head and herbal tea for settling the nerves, try Science, Fresh Squeezed As American History, Fresh Squeezed, the first in the BrainJuice series, did for our country's past, Science, Fresh Squeezed.

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Carol Diggory Shields. General science never stops! You have to learn earth science, space science, life science, chemistry, and physics - and that's way too much!

Carol Diggory Shields. General science never stops! You have to learn earth science, space science, life science, chemistry, and physics - and that's way too much! But before you administer hot compresses to the head and herbal tea for settling the nerves, try Science, Fresh Squeezed! As American History, Fresh Squeezed!, the first in the BrainJuice series, did for our country's past, Science, Fresh Squeezed! offers everything you need to know and understand about the entire body of scientific knowledge.

by Carol Diggory Shields & illustrated by Richard Thompson. In fourteen hundred and ninety two,, Columbus did not have a clue. In deft, light verse, Shields (Food Fight, p. 963, et. revisits dozens of high and low spots in this country’s history, to which political cartoonist Thompson appends plenty of fine-lined, tongue-in-cheek caricatures and vignettes.

Only Carol Diggory Shields could reduce a whole body of knowledge to forty incisive, hilarious, and all-encompassing poems!In this newest addition to the BrainJuice series, Carol Diggory Shields undertakes to impart all the really. Only Carol Diggory Shields could reduce a whole body of knowledge to forty incisive, hilarious, and all-encompassing poems!