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32 pp.
| Dutton
| March, 2010
|
Trade
ISBN 978-0-525-47901-7
$16.99
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K-3
Illustrated by
Josée Masse.
Through a poetic invention she dubs the
reverso, Singer meditates on twelve familiar folktales, and, via the magic of shifting line breaks and punctuation, their shadows. Each free-verse poem has two stanzas, set on facing columns, where the second is the first reversed. Similarly bifurcated illustrations, Shrek-bright, face the cleverly constructed and insightful poems.
Reviewer:
Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2010