Books by Marilyn Singer
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review 1: Mirror Mirror by Marilyn Singer and Illustrated by Josee Masse is great for children ages 6 through 11 years old. When you open the book first you read the poems from top to bottom for one meaning then you reverse the lines and read again from bottom to top for another meaning of...
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review 1: I loved the creativity of Mirror, Mirror so clearly I had to read this one. The author clearly has a gift to boil classic fairy tales down to a poem. Her true talent shows when she takes the poem and flips it. The same poem when flipped has a new perspective by the change of pun...
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review 1: I enjoyed the illustrations in this book quite a bit. All of these poems are about outdoor games...some of which I've played and some I haven't. I appreciate that there is an emphasis on using imagination...such as in "A Stick is an Excellent Thing" where the stick is used as a...
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review 1: Tallulah’s Tutu is about a little girl just starting ballet that is waiting not-so-patiently to earn her tutu. After a few classes Tallulah gets fed up waiting for her tutu and decides she does not want to dance anymore! Unfortunately, everything from the neighbors dog to the han...
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review 1: Using a variety of poetry forms, Singer combines with Young for a striking book about the bizarre places that creatures can live. She also pays a nod to literary education by telling which poem is in which form. This was surprisingly educational (bugs live on petroleum? Ick! Anot...
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review 1: I've enjoyed Hendrix's style of historical figures in other books, and was not disappointed here. I was a bit disappointed in the overall negative portrayal of many presidents. I found the coverage to be a bit unbalanced. My liberal friends would love some of these, especially th...