Having chosen fairy tales as her theme for this collection of poetry, Singer brings us the double life of Cinderella the tale of Sleeping Beauty, as told through the sleeping princess’ point-of-view and the prince’s - both a bit jaded the story of Goldilocks and the three bears, as if headlines in the news and much more. When you read it up, with changes allowed only in punctuation and capitalization it is a different poem…” Singer uses her reverso technique to tell both sides of each tale, Publishers Weekly calling the concept a smart one and praising Masse’s fun-with-symmetry, as you can see in these featured spreads. When you read a reverso down, it is one poem. “But what if we read them up? That’s the question I asked myself when I created the reverso. “We read most poems down a page,” writes Singer in the book’s note on the poetry. It comes from Marilyn Singer’s newest collection of poetry, Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse, illustrated by Josée Masse, and released this week by Dutton Juvenile: Below is the smart poem that goes with the spread you see above. First, you know those picture books that try entirely too hard to be clever concept books, as in the concept is uncomfortably forced? Well, it’s Opposite Day (in more ways than one): Here’s one concept book, a collection of poems, that really works.
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