About This Book
"You Read to Me, I'll Read to You" is an innovative poetry collection designed for shared reading between an adult and child, or two children. Each page is split, allowing one person to read one side and another to read the other, with some words in the middle read in chorus. It features very short, humorous retellings of classic Mother Goose tales like Humpty Dumpty and Little Miss Muffet, offering surprising new directions and endings. This format is excellent for building reading fluency, confidence, and fostering a love for books through collaboration and play.
Discussion Prompts
1
Which Mother Goose story in this book was your favorite and why?
2
How did these stories change from the original nursery rhymes you might know?
3
What was it like to read this book together? What parts did you like reading alone, and what parts did you like reading in chorus?
4
If you could give a new ending to a nursery rhyme, which one would it be and what would happen?
