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Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems (Reverso Poems) - Marilyn Singer, Josée Masse

Echo Echo: Reverso Poems About Greek Myths - Marilyn Singer, Josee Masse

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Reading For The Heck Of It rated it

5 years ago

text Unique concept combined with beautiful illustrations

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems by Marilyn Singer with pictures by Josee Masse contains reverso poetry based on fairy tales which when read in one direction tells one story (and from one POV) but when read in reverse is a wholly different story. An example would be Cinderella’s story on one p...

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An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it

6 years ago

text Mirror Mirror

Wow, these are clever. I think fractured fairy tales can be really difficult to do well without feeling derivative, but Singer nails these on the head. They are all so well done and thought provoking, particularly “Do You Know My Name?” about Rumpelstiltskin and the girl he spins for.

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Kaethe rated it

8 years ago

text Echo Echo: Reverso Poems About Greek Myths - Marilyn Singer, Josee Masse

While I’m not a big contemporary poetry reader for adults, I enjoy it enormously in kid’s books. For adults, I pretty much lost interest after Elliot, except for light verse and/or song lyrics. Natasha has much of Hamilton memorized, a worthwhile feat, because that is a work of genius, and the wordp...

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Kaethe rated it

12 years ago

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I'm not a huge poetry fan, even when it's for kids (although I like that better than most contemporary poetry for adults). Poetry that doesn't have a rhyme scheme and a meter I can dance to just doesn't move me as much. That said; WOW. Singer's work is amazing. Again, she's taken a number of fairy t...

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