Echo Echo: Reverso Poems About Greek Myths

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A new book of unique reversible poems based on Greek myths from the creator of Mirror Mirror What happens when you hold up a mirror to poems about Greek myths You get a brand-new perspective on the classics! And that is just what happens in Echo Echo, the newest collection of reverso poems from Marilyn Singer. Read one way, each poem tells the story of a familiar myth; but when read in reverse, the poems reveal a new point of view! Readers will delight in uncovering the dual points of view in well-known legends, including the stories of Pandora's box, King Midas and his golden touch, Perseus and Medusa, Pygmalion, Icarus and Daedalus, Demeter and Persephone, and Echo and Narcissus. These cunning verses combine with beautiful illustrations to create a collection of fourteen reverso poems to treasure.

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A New York Public Library Best of the Year pick
AnSLJBest 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 Singers 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 mortalseasy and rewarding to read." The Boston Globe

"Delightful...vivid, glowing."TheWall Street Journal

"Mythology and Western civ curricula will grab greedilyfor this one."BCCB

Author Bio

Marilyn Singer is an award-winning author of more than 90 children's books in a wide variety of genres. Josee Masse is a recognized artist in her native Canada, having illustrated numerous French and American picture books.