Echo echo : reverso poems about Greek myths / Marilyn Singer ; illustrated by Josée Masse.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780803739925
- ISBN: 0803739923
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "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."-- Provided by publisher |
Awards Note: | Nutmeg Award Nominee, Elementary, 2019. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Mythology, Greek > Juvenile poetry. Mythology, Greek > Poetry. American poetry. |
Available copies
- 71 of 71 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kent Memorial Library - Suffield. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 71 total copies.
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | J 811.54 S (Text) | 32518141922487 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Babcock Library - Ashford | J 811 Sin (Text) | 33110139361784 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Beardsley Branch - Bridgeport | j811.54 SINGER (Text) | 34000081334799 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | jREAD-ALONG SINGER, M. (Text) | 32544072521551 | Juvenile Read Along | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | J 811.54 Sin (Text) | 33160142351967 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | J 811.54 S (Text) | 34030141679057 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | J 811.54 S (Text) | 34030141679065 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | j811.54 SINGER (NUTMEG NOMINEE 2019) (Text) | 34000081334757 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | j811.54 SINGER (NUTMEG NOMINEE 2019) (Text) | 34000081334765 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | JNF 811.54 SIN (Text) | 33260000267998 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
Echo Echo : Reverso Poems about Greek Myths
Marilyn Singer was born in the Bronx, New York, on October 3, 1948, and lived most of her early life in North Massapequa on Long Island. She attended Queens College, City University of New York as an English major and education student, and for her junior year, attended Reading University, in England. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from Queens and a MA in Communications from New York University. Marilyn Singer had been teaching English in New York City high schools for several years when she began writing in 1974. Initially, she wrote film notes, catalogues, teacher's guides and filmstrips. She also began looking into magazine writing. Her article proposals were not very successful, but she did manage to have some of her poetry published. Then one day she penned a story featuring talking insects she'd made up when she was eight. Encouraged by the responses she got, she wrote more stories and in 1976 her first book, The Dog Who Insisted He Wasn't, was published. Since then, Marilyn has published more than 50 books for children and young adults. In addition to a rich collection of fiction picture books, Singer has also produced a wide variety of nonfiction works for young readers as well as several poetry volumes in picture book format. Additionally, Singer has edited volumes of short stories for young adult readers, including Stay True: Short Stories for Strong Girls and I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion. (Bowker Author Biography)