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Age Range
6 - 9
Genre
poetry
Copyright Year
2020-04-01
Page Count
44
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Grade Level
1st - 4th
ISBN
978-1773061320
Lexile
880
Themes
humor
poetry

Explosion at the Poem Factory

Written by Kyle Lukoff and Illustrated by Mark Hoffmann

What would happen if poems were made on an assembly line, just like toys or canned soup? When piano teacher Kilmer Watts loses his job and ends up working in a poem factory, he discovers that making real poetry is a lot more complicated than pulling levers and pushing buttons. When the machines break down, everything he thought he knew about creativity gets turned upside down. Can a poem truly be manufactured, or does it need something that no machine could ever have?

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Explosion at the Poem Factory: Read Aloud Guide

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Age Range
6 - 9
Genre
poetry
Copyright Year
2020-04-01
Page Count
44
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Grade Level
1st - 4th
ISBN
978-1773061320
Lexile
880
Themes
humor
poetry
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