Back at ALA Midwinter Boston 2015, the Penguin gals spoke about this book during their Book Buzz session. I was hooked. Aside from the Greek myth angle this is such a clever way to tell stories. I very much recommend if you are reading this aloud that you offer sheets with the poems on it, you have to see how the lines and punctuation and pace change from side to side.

The illustrations are gorgeous - like the words they are reverse of each other (in the Hades/Persephone you see the sadness and happiness of their viewpoints for instance) and the myths chosen good fit. Not just very well known myths like Pandora, Persephone and Orpheus, but also Melanion & Atalanta, and Bellerophon & Pegasus.

To have this sort of imagination and agility of mind makes me jealous. This is a level of reading and writing comprehension that I wish we saw more often in fun ways like this. It makes a higher concept poetry idea interesting to a younger generation who wouldn't always been exposed to it. ( )

This book is great for an introductory into Greek mythology and for reverso poems. It has great pictures that can help with understanding and wonderful words to describe the myth. Most of these myths are not the typical Greek myths that people tend to hear. ( )

Fans of Greek Mythology will enjoy this clever mash up of Greek myths and poetry. Each myth is told from two different point of views. When the poem is read from top to bottom it shares one perspective. When the same poem is read in reverse, the same words take on a different meaning and provide the other side of the story. The bottom of each page gives more detail for background on each myth. The accompanying illustration are beautiful and work to give both sides of the story thru pictures. I think this would be a lot of fun to read with students. ( )

This is a great book for intermediate readers. These poems are about greek myths and they are the same words and same sentence structure just reversed for each poem. Each poem comes with another that is exactly the same just reversed. This is a great book to help children understand that there are multiple meanings to a word and how even in Greek myths the theme can be changed by simply flipping the poem. This can help students creative writing and help them understand multiple meanings to a word at a young age. ( )

Intermediate. This book features "reverso" poems about Greek mythology. It is a very clever picture of the ways we can be creative with poetry. Great for a poetry module oR Greek mythology.