Mirror, Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems

This book was delightful. It took me 2 poems before I got what was going on and it tickled me. There is a poem about a fairy tale character on half the page and then the other half of the page is the same poem read backward. It’s written smartly, so it reads well both ways and tells the story from t......more

I like to think that the world of children's literature has gained a bit more respect in the last decade or so. Folks notice it and reference it more often. And as sales continue to be good and scholars take note of it more often, its sub-genres proliferate and gain acceptance. Graphic novelists of......more

These reverso poems (read the same going down as going up) are clever. They don’t always work 100% but they work well enough and they’re very impressive given how hard they are to write/construct. They’re fiendishly difficult to write; I can tell. The ones I liked best were the ones that specificall......more

Marilyn Singer presents fourteen "reverso" poems in this delightful picture-book, each of which offers a dual retelling of a classic fairy-tale. Read down the page, the poem tells one side of the story, but when the lines are printed in the opposite order, it gives another perspective. Consider In t......more