I started reading The Egypt Game to RDC last night. It is one of my earliest favorite books, maybe the first after Dr. Dolittle, who wasn't just a book but my favorite fictional character. And I think I learned about him from Mrs. Plimpton, my beloved second-grade teacher. She read Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle aloud to us, I know, and, memorably, once an old-fashioned tale that had the word "bosom" in it.
After hearing Zilpha Keatley Snyder's name, RDC asked if the entire book was written in iambic trimeter.