Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror

Author: Marilyn Singer

Illustrator: Josee Masse

Genre: Poetry 

Awards: None

Grades: 3rd-6th 

This book is full of familiar stories such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Little Red Riding Hood. On each page you read the original poem and then you read the new version of each. The newer version  is a backwards version of the traditional story. The words in both versions are the same, the lines are simply reversed. Each version is also told through a different point of view. For example, in Little Red Riding Hood the forward version is told through the girls point of view and the backward version is told through the wolf's perspective. 

I would most likely use this book as a read aloud to teach about poems. This book can also be used to teach about differing perspectives.