Marilyn Singer

"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...

With the help of friendly spider Webster, aspiring violinists Patience Muffet and LIttle Bo-Peep find personal fulfillment in the court of Old King Cole.

Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly, but at dance camp she struggles to learn tap. Even worse, she can't seem to get along with another girl who loves tap and doesn't like ballet. Can the two find a way to help each other?

Tallulah strives for perfection during ballet class and dreams of dancing a solo in the upcoming recital, but her little brother Beckett, who misbehaves all during class, gets a better role than she does.

Presents "reverso" poems based off classic fairy stories, like Aladdin and the jinni or the three pigs and the wolf, written in such a way that the lines can be read from top to bottom, or bottom to top, and retain meaning and coherence.

Rhyming text shows all the imaginative things you can do with an apple.

Collects poems about the full moon, with introductory pages containing lunar facts and a map on lining paper pinpoints the locations the poems are set.

Presents rhymes about presidents of the United States, from George Washington to Barack Obama.

True stories of cats who have exhibited heroic or unusual behavior.