Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

This book was not what I expected. I was expecting it to be actual poems, and it's not. It just looks like poems. It even talks about this through out the book like on page 23 how poems have a distinct look to them and they may not be a poem but it looks like one because they are short and don't go all the way across a page. This was interesting to me. It is basically like he is writing in his journal to his teacher but making it appear as he is writing poetry. You can guess what her responses were because of his answers back but they aren't actually written. I kind of wish they were. At times he is also very blunt. At one point he says "And the other dogs in the cages get killed dead if nobody chooses them." What a morbid comment for a young boy to write. I like when he makes a picture poem of his yellow dog. I bet that took a lot of time for him.

1 comment:

  1. I don't agree that this book simply "looked like a poem." In fact, I think it was more an efort to break down the idea that a poem must look a certain way. Further, I think Jack's comment sounds pretty typical for a kid thinking about why their dog would have to die...

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