

Musn't dawdle.skipping through the woodĪfter all, Grandma's waiting.in my 'hood. What a treat!.picking berries to eat,īut a girl.carrying a basket,

Skipping through the wood.mustn't dawdle.Ĭarrying a basket.But a girl! Here's an example of one of the flip poems that I particularly liked:Ī.B: It's amazing to see how different the same words/opinions come off. One of the things I loved in this picture book is that some of the poems feature the "hero/heroine" on one side and the "villain" on the other.

When you read it up, with changes allowed only in punctuation and capitalization it is a different poem." When you read a reverso down, it is one poem. But what if we read them up? That's the question I asked myself when I created the reverso. The first few entries were so witty, I had to go home and read the rest.Īt the end of the book, Marilyn Singer states, "We read most poems down a page. I actually purchased Mirror Mirror sometime last year because it combined interesting poetry techniques with fairytales. The winners are chosen because they "combined literary merit with kid appeal." Yesterday, Mirror Mirror won the 2010 Cybils Award in the Poetry division.
