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The microscope

Relates in rhyme the famous Dutch scientist's penchant for viewing things with a microscope, through which he made remarkable observations.

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Main Author: Kumin, Maxine, 1925-
Other Authors: Lobel, Arnold (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper & Row, [1984], c1968.
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Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van, > 1632-1723 > Juvenile nonfiction.
Microscope and microscopy > History > Juvenile nonfiction.
Biologists > Netherlands > Biography > Juvenile.
Picture books for children.
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Summary:Relates in rhyme the famous Dutch scientist's penchant for viewing things with a microscope, through which he made remarkable observations.
Item Description:"Originally appeared in The wonderful babies of 1809 and other years, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:[32] p. : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
ISBN:0060235233 :
0060235241 (lib. bdg.) :
Author Notes:Maxine Kumin was born in Philadelphia in 1925. She received a BA and a MA from Radcliffe College. In the 1950s, she enrolled in a poetry writing course at the Boston Center for Adult Education. The course led to the publication of poems in Harper's and The New Yorker. Her first collection of poems, Halfway, was published in 1961. Her other poetry collections include Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010, Still to Mow, and And Short the Season. She received several awards including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Robert Frost Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country: Poems of New England. She also wrote four novels, short stories, a memoir entitled Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery, essay collections, and children's books. She died of natural causes on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88.

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