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Summary: Poems Collar Great Book
Review: Attention all dog lovers from third to sixth grade! Love That Dog is a delightful and unusual book about a boy and his dog. An incident with the dog inspires his owner to unwittingly create poems. How does that happen? That is the story.
Sharon Creech, the author of this book, as well as the Newbery Medal winner Walk Two Moons, The Wanderer, and Chasing Redbird, was a high school English and writing teacher for fifteen years. Creech decided to write Love That Dog when a high school writing class arrived with a built-in dread of poetry. This story is based on the reactions of her students to writing poetry. Creech became mesmerized with the rhythms and the way a poet could put so much feeling into so few words when she had a teacher who made poetry exciting. She wrote Love That Dog to demonstrate how enjoyable poetry can be.
The idea for her first book evolved from a made up story for a class. "I started by telling my class a short story that just kept getting longer and longer, until I realized I was hooked on it, and I continued to write novels thereafter," said Creech at an interview with Bookwire. "I have written stories for as long as I can remember."
This novel has no illustrations, but the shape of the paragraphs and the creative placement of the poems on the page substitute for even the most detailed drawings. Why do you want
to type up what I wrote
about reading
the small poems? The reader must observe the inter-esting shapes to really savor the story.
Jack, who despises poetry, even-tually makes a turnabout as he slowly reveals the story of his dog Sky, through his poems.
If you are a dog lover, like po-etry, or even if you don't, this is the book for you! A fast, delightful read. A book you don't want to pass by!
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Summary: Love this book ... and others too!
Review: I was delighted to discover this book and have thoroughly enjoyed sharing it with my students as well as my own children. LOVE THAT DOG is a delicious way to introduce young readers to free verse poetry... However, in reading this book we are to believe that the poems are written by a young elementary student. In all honesty, Jack's attempts read very much like prose that is simply rearranged on the page with poetry-like line breaks. Students I have worked with through the years are capable of so much more! So, while I LOVE this book and will continue to use it in my classroom, I certainly don't intend to neglect other poetry books that have delighted and inspired my young creative writers such as: ALL THE SMALL POEMS by Valerie Worth and LITTLE DOG POEMS by Kristine O'Connell George. LITTLE DOG POEMS, in combination with LOVE THAT DOG, is particularly powerful since these short poems are not only about a much-loved dog, but are also written in a first-person child's voice. Worth, George, and other many other poets are needed in the "mix" to help young writers and readers understand that poetry is not *just* short lines and a lot of white space -- but that poetry is also about metaphor, imagery, and some of the amazing and surprising connections that can be made through lanaguage when we write poetry.
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Summary: Hate That Dog
Review: Love That Dog, by Sharon Creech.
Boy's don't write poetry, girls do. Love That Dog is about a young boy who hate's poetry. After a while he begins to enjoy poetry also he likes the poet Walter Dean Myers. I thought that that book was one of the worst books I have ever read. I would not reccomend this book to anyone. The ages that might like this book are 5-10. It was a terrible book.
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Summary: A Picture of Poems -- a review by Chris, age 10
Review: Love that Dog is about a boy named Jack who had a dog that died, and now he is writing in his poem journal, but he believes that poetry is not for boys. Yeah, right. He writes some beginner's poetry but they are inspired by other professional poetry, and he gets better and more confident at writing poetry throughout the book. He writes poems inspired by the works of Robert Frost, Arnold Adoff and many more. This is a book of humor and poetry, similar to Amelia's Notebook and a Shel Silverstein book combined. The author writes this way because emotions are better expressed in poetry than in prose. It shows young writers how to get ideas inspired by another author. It is a good book for people who like letter books where the whole book is letters. It is for young readers who like poetry. This is a very good book by a very good author.
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Summary: Love That Dog
Review: Love That Dog Love that dog is a book all about poems. Well, to be honest this book wasn't that a great book. Every poem doesn't go together like a regular chapter/story book. If it was a poem or a rhyming book that would go together like a storybook, then I'd read it, other ways I would never read a poem book again. If your wanting a story about dogs this is definitely not the book for you.
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Summary: Love this book!
Review: This is a fantastic book and a great way to get kids interested in poetry. This book demonstrates how children can explore and express feelings through poetry and learn about themselves in the process. Love That Dog will pull you in and you will not be able to put it down. It is a wonderful story and a MUST read! Adults and children will enjoy this book. It will make you laugh and maybe even cry as we can all identify with Jack at some time in our lives. Thank you Sharon Creech for such a wonderful book!
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Summary: Best book in the world
Review: I don't want to because boys don't write poetry''''..Girl do.' Love That Dog is a poetry book about shy boy who loves to write poetry, but he thinks only girls write poetry. In the book, most of his poems are signed by anonymous. Over the course of the book Jack, the main character, asks his teacher to invite a famous poet to their school. After the poet leaves he realizes that he doesn't have to hide his poems any more. I recommend this book to people who enjoy poetry. When I started to read the book I couldn't put it down. Love That Dog is written like a poetry book, but told like a story. I recommend this book to boys who like to write poetry. Although the book is about poetry, it has a strange twist to it.
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Summary: Love Poetry
Review: LOVE THAT DOG By Sharon Creech is a touching story of a boy who doesn't like poetry. "I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do." This book is written in a diary form and shows how Jack grows and learns to like poetry. He is inspired by his teacher, famous authors/poets and the love he has for his dog. As he begins to write poetry he is not too sure of himself because his words don't rhyme. After reading poems by famous authors he realizes they don't have to rhyme and becomes more confident and allows the teacher to post his poems on the bulletin board. At first his poems are anonymous then as he becomes more confident he adds his name and recieves many compliments from his classmates. Jack is particulary inspired by Walter Dean Myers and writes him a letter asking him to visit his school. Can someone that famous take the time to visit Jack's school?
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Summary: Jack's School life
Review: Jack is a poet and his friends at school say girls are poets not boys. So he gets a yellow dog and names it Sky. Sky helps Jack cool down and feel good. People who would like this book would like realistic fiction. Mr. Walter Dean Myers comes to the school because Jack sends him lots of letters to him. Read the book to find out what he says. Abby Van Meveren
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Summary: Well done
Review: (...)I loved this book and particularly the book on tape with the special surprise at the end. The book is not about a boy who hates poetry. It's about a boy who is awkward about expressing his creativity and his sadness. He finds, through journaling to his teacher, his own poetic yearnings. And also that personal expression is not about cadence and rationlism, but about making soul sense of our lived lives. No, the poetry is not "Hiawatha," but it is convincingly the poetry of a young male child. It's about inspiration. I'm inspired! And yes, authors often visit schools at the request of their young fans.
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