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Echo Echo: Reverso Poems About Greek Myths


School year: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5

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No. of pages 32

Published: 2016

Great for age 6-10 years

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Marilyn Singer has created yet another collection of her ingenious reverso poems, this time holding up the mirror to classical Greek myths. Each tale is told in a single poem that, when read in reverse, reveals another meaning. As with Mirror Mirror and Follow Follow readers will delight in uncovering the dual points of view in well-known legends such as Pandora's Box and Echo and Narcissus, among others. Thoughtful explanatory notes about the original myths accompany each poem, and acclaimed artist Josee Masse's clever paintings-these in sun-drenched Mediterranean hues-contribute beauty plus visual meaning.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 1st grade-4th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 6-9 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by Penguin Putnam Inc .

Marilyn Singer , a recipient of the NCTE Award for Children's Poetry, is the author of more than one hundred books. She lives in New York and Connecticut. Visit her website at www. marilynsinger. net.

 

A New York Public Library Best of the Year pick

 

An SLJ Best Book of the Year

 

A Nerdy Book Club Award winner

 

* "Another inventive exploration of stories readers thought they knew." -- Publishers Weekly

* "A witty, seductive pairing of poetic imagination and artistic vision." -- School Library Journal

"A visual and interpretive feast bringing timeless tales to a young audience." -- Kirkus Reviews

"A wonderful addition to poetry collections andaccompaniment for the myths."-- Booklist

"Marilyn Singer's ingenious 'reverso' poems are child-friendly feats of verbal pyrotechnics" -- The New York Times

"The perfect supplement or introduction to Pandora, King Midas, Icarus, and the rest of the bunch of fantastically flawed gods, monsters, and mortals...easy and rewarding to read." -- The Boston Globe

"Delightful...vivid, glowing." --The Wall Street Journal

"Mythology and Western civ curricula will grab greedily for this one." --BCCB