How would Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf each tell their sides of their story? How about Cinderella and her prince? Marilyn Singer uses the same words in opposite order (only changes in punctuation and capitalization are allowed!) to create two different poems-and two different points of view. She calls this clever new poetic form the reverso. Explanation of reversos. Full-color illustrations.
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• The reverso engages readers by challenging them to spot the small differences that change a poem’s entire meaning.
• The artwork skillfully echoes the poems. For example, in one illustration, one half of the page presents the startling tableau Goldilocks sees upon waking in the bears’ house, and the other half shows the bears’ view of a shocked Goldilocks.
• The illustrations are also notable in themselves, with striking imagery and careful details that hold viewers’ attention.
• Some poems allow characters that don’t have a voice in the original fairy tales to present their points of view, prompting readers to reconsider familiar stories.
• Great for poetry and writing units. The reverso is so fun to read that it may inspire kids to write their own poems in this form.