Marilyn Singer

"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...

Describes the different types of animals, insects, and fish around the world that use venom to protect themselves and catch their prey and explains what venom is, how it works, how venom is injected into the creatures' victims, and other related topics.

Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly, but at dance camp she struggles to learn tap. Even worse, she can't seem to get along with another girl who loves tap and doesn't like ballet. Can the two find a way to help each other?

Tallulah takes ballet lessons and eagerly awaits her coveted tutu, which, she learns, she must work hard to earn.

From award-winning author Marilyn Singer comes a funny Level 1 Ready-to-Read about a poodle whose hair won't stop growing!
Poodle coming, poodle going.
Poodle's curly hair is growing.
Poodle's eyes are hardly showing.
Like the grass, that dog needs mowing!

Come see Poodle's hair grow and grow and grow in this delightful rhyming book that beginning readers will love reading again and again.

What's brewing when two favorites - poetry and fairy tales - are turned (literally) on their heads? It's a revolutionary recipe: an infectious new genre of poetry and a lovably modern take on classic stories. First, read the poems forward (how old-fashioned!), then reverse the lines and read again to give familiar tales, from Sleeping Beauty to that Charming Prince, a delicious new spin. Witty, irreverent, and warm, this gorgeously illustrated and...