Mirror, Mirror

Singer,M. (2010). Mirror, Mirror. NY: Harper Collins.

(Required Reading List)

This book  took a very different approach on some classic fairy tales.  This is a collection of some very well known poems written in reverso. When we read poems we read them going down, but in reverso you change the capitalization and the punctuation and the poem takes on an entirely different meaning .  I like how the poems tell two sides to the story.  In one poem “Bears in the News”, the first poem tells the traditional story of Goldilocks and the three bears.  Goldilocks ate the porridge and broke the chair, and broke into their house Goldilocks was startled by the bears returning home. In reverso ,  the same events happen but the bears were startled by Goldilocks being in their house.  This is a great book for younger elementary students when starting to introduce prose and poems.  The illustrator of the book did a great job in actually reversing the picture to match the poem. Her work is compared that of Stefano Vitale because they both used paints with woodworking.