Do you like palindromes?
Palindromes are words or sentences that read the same backwards or forwards.

If you are called Lil or Anna or Bob, your name is a palindrome.
Backwards or forwards, it is spelled the same way.

If you see a car ahead of you on the road and say that it's "a Toyota" you have put together two words to make a palindrome.  "A Toyota" reads the same backwards as forwards.

It is possible to put several words together into a complete sentence to form a palindrome.

People who know about palindromes like to quote Napoleon (well, not really...) and say,
"Able was I ere I saw Elba."
If you read that sentence backwards, it says the same thing!

Palindrome fans (palindrome pals?) talk of President Teddy Roosevelt and say,
"A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama!"
The letters in that exclamation form words that read the same backwards as forwards.

ONCE UPON A PALINDROME is a story and word game where you, the reader, look for a palindrome to logically end each page or brief chapter.

Here's an example to show how it works.

The scene is the Garden of Eden.
A  man approaches a woman.
He introduces himself in a dignified manner.
He says, "  _  _  _  _  _ ,  _ ' _    _  _  _  _ ."

You can fill in the blanks with a palindrome.

The answer:  He says, "Madam, I'm Adam."

Then she nods and shyly says her name, "_  _  _ ."
You can fill in the blanks with a palindrome.

The answer is "Eve." -- another palindrome!

If you'd like to read ONCE UPON A PALINDROME and play the game, click to go on to Chapter One.

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