Praise

A New York Public Library Best of the Year pick
An SLJ Best Book of the Year
A Nerdy Book Club Award winner


* “Another inventive exploration of stories readers thought they knew.” — Publishers Weekly

* “A witty, seductive pairing of poetic imagination and artistic vision.” — School Library Journal

“A visual and interpretive feast bringing timeless tales to a young audience.” — Kirkus Reviews

“A wonderful addition to poetry collections andaccompaniment for the myths.”—  Booklist

“Marilyn Singer’s ingenious ‘reverso’ poems are child-friendly feats of verbal pyrotechnics” — The New York Times

“The perfect supplement or introduction to Pandora, King Midas, Icarus, and the rest of the bunch of fantastically flawed gods, monsters, and mortals…easy and rewarding to read.” — The Boston Globe

“Delightful…vivid, glowing.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Mythology and Western civ curricula will grab greedily for this one.” —BCCB