Junior Library Guild

• 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.