Traditional fairy tales have been told many different ways in many different cultures. This author takes a unique approach to it with poems written in two different perspectives. The reader will read the perspective of Sleeping Beauty and her prince, both thinking they have the hardest part of the story. The reader will also hear a poem illustrating both halves of Cinderella's story. The illustrator, Josee Masse, uses the visual element of line by subtly splitting the illustrations down the middle and showing the differing perspectives of the poems on each side of the line. However, Masse does not stop there. Even though there is a noticeable line, within each half of many of the pictures the image is mirrored, subtly creating four quadrants within each image.
References
Singer, M. (2010). Mirror mirror. New York, New York: Dutton Children's Books.
-Naomi Emory, The Bookish Educator
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