Mirror Mirror
Author: Marilyn Singer
Illustrator: Josee Masse
Publisher: Live Oak Media
Year of Publication: 2010
Genre: Poem and Picture book
Horn Book: 1
Summary: The book creates poems based off of favorite fairytales that are well known by young children.
Summary of Professional Reviews: Fourteen cleverly crafted pairs of poems look at a selection of familiar fairy tales from two points of view, with each pair comprised of the same lines in opposite order, a reversal that changes meaning and perspective entirely. Masse's gorgeous, stylized illustrations enhance the themes of duality and perspective by presenting images and landscapes that morph in delightful ways from one side of the page to the other. Not every pair works equally well as poetry in two directions but the best are masterpieces, and the collection as a whole is not only entertaining but offers uses for the classroom as well.
Review by Kim Beers: It was great to see the mirror images on the pages. During a few of the poems, the images that were mirrored consisted of the good characters and the other side consisted of the bad villians. For the peom about Snow White, Snow White and the seven dwarfs were on one side of the mirror and the witch holding the poisoned apple was on the other side. The text also did the same by having two sides of the stories on each page, written in different colors to represent the differences. It was great to see the contrast of characters through the mirror images just like the title of the book portrays. The author and illustrator designed the book to have a illustration and text on oposing pages so they do not overlap. This was a great idea because if they did so, it would have taken away the idea behind the pictures. Mirror Mirror took well known fairytales and put their own twist to them.
This book would
be useful when teaching…
Mirror Mirror would be useful when teaching children how to retell books they have just heard. The poems in the book still convey the important themes to the fairytales. The teacher could help students identify the major aspects of the things needed to be able to retell a book accurately.
Illustrator: Josee Masse
Publisher: Live Oak Media
Year of Publication: 2010
Genre: Poem and Picture book
Horn Book: 1
Summary: The book creates poems based off of favorite fairytales that are well known by young children.
Summary of Professional Reviews: Fourteen cleverly crafted pairs of poems look at a selection of familiar fairy tales from two points of view, with each pair comprised of the same lines in opposite order, a reversal that changes meaning and perspective entirely. Masse's gorgeous, stylized illustrations enhance the themes of duality and perspective by presenting images and landscapes that morph in delightful ways from one side of the page to the other. Not every pair works equally well as poetry in two directions but the best are masterpieces, and the collection as a whole is not only entertaining but offers uses for the classroom as well.
Review by Kim Beers: It was great to see the mirror images on the pages. During a few of the poems, the images that were mirrored consisted of the good characters and the other side consisted of the bad villians. For the peom about Snow White, Snow White and the seven dwarfs were on one side of the mirror and the witch holding the poisoned apple was on the other side. The text also did the same by having two sides of the stories on each page, written in different colors to represent the differences. It was great to see the contrast of characters through the mirror images just like the title of the book portrays. The author and illustrator designed the book to have a illustration and text on oposing pages so they do not overlap. This was a great idea because if they did so, it would have taken away the idea behind the pictures. Mirror Mirror took well known fairytales and put their own twist to them.
This book would
be useful when teaching…
Mirror Mirror would be useful when teaching children how to retell books they have just heard. The poems in the book still convey the important themes to the fairytales. The teacher could help students identify the major aspects of the things needed to be able to retell a book accurately.