Love That Dog

"I don't want to
because boys
don't write poetry.

Girls do."

Love That Dog
By: Sharon Creech
Copyright 2001
Joanna Coter Books.  Harper Trophy
Novel - Poetry
Younger Readers
86 Pages

A cute little novel about a boy who doesnt think he can write poety and really doesnt want to either.  Jack is writing to his teacher about how he cant write poetry and it is not for him.  You only get to read his side of the conversation but you can tell that his teacher is telling him that the things that he is writing are good and asking him if she can put them up on the class poetry board.  Jack starts to gain an oppinon on the poetry they are talking about in class and starts to discover from his teacher that the things he writes are a form of poetry.  He starts to LOVE poetry and is not ashamed of it.  He even writes a letter to Walter Dean Myers to come to the school and talk to his class.  He ends up comming and Jack is so full of excitment.  So the book you get to see the way Jack thinks about poetry and the way that he writes change.  It is a fun and exciting side to read, and infer what the teacher is saying.  Jack goes from thinking that poetry is for girls to loving poetry and wanting to do it.

I would recomend this book.  It is pretty cute and importent to know that when you think something is dumb, you can learn to love it if you try or even just gain an opinion at it.  Also you may think you are bad at something but you are actully good, you just didnt know it because you never tried.

I dont think that anything is wrong with this story, though it could be nice to know more of what the teacher was saying.

I enjoyed the story.  It was cute, and shows other forms of poetry.  They dont have to ryme, but a lot fo the time poems are feelings writen down.  I love poetry, it is one of my favorite parts of L.A.