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`Once again, Sharon Creech has a funny and closely observed prose poem that really draws the reader into Jack's life' --The Scotsman
`Brilliantly introduces poetry, similes, metaphors, and onomatopoeic words in context . . . Every library should have a copy of this excellent book'
--Read Me, Scholastic Magazines --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
`Brilliantly introduces poetry, similes, metaphors, and onomatopoeic words in context . . . Every library should have a copy of this excellent book'
--Read Me, Scholastic Magazines --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'Sharon Creech is a skilful storyteller, whose books I always read with pleasure' Philip Pullman, Guardian 'Creech's second celebration of the power of poetry to capture the moment and realise some understanding of self and others is as sensitive and subtle as her first' Books for Keeps 'Brilliantly introduces poetry, similes, metaphors, and onomatopoeic words in context ... Every library should have a copy of this excellent book' Read Me, Scholastic Magazines 'Creech manages to turn the humdrum world into one of mysteries and miracles' Mail on Sunday
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Jack is back! Miss Stretchberry moved up with him so luckily he has her as a teacher again. It's time for Miss Stretchberry's poetry unit again, and this time Jack isn't as reluctant to call himself a poet.
While Jack does write about Sky, his lovable, yellow dog from LOVE THAT DOG, most of his poems focus on a fat, black neighborhood cat that he absolutely can't stand.
Just like in LOVE THAT DOG, Jack uses poetry to discover his true feelings about some important things in his life, the two most important being his mother and cats.
The nice thing about HATE THAT CAT is the explicit teaching of multiple literary devices. Jack goes through the process of learning how to utilize alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, metaphor, and simile in his writing, with the help of quality examples. HATE THAT CAT would be extremely useful in the classroom.
Poets included in HATE THAT CAT are:
Walter Dean Myers
William Carlos Williams
Edgar Allan Poe
Valerie Worth
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Christopher Myers
T. S. Eliot
The poems that are referenced throughout HATE THAT CAT are included in the back of the book.
Reviewed by: Karin Librarian
While Jack does write about Sky, his lovable, yellow dog from LOVE THAT DOG, most of his poems focus on a fat, black neighborhood cat that he absolutely can't stand.
Just like in LOVE THAT DOG, Jack uses poetry to discover his true feelings about some important things in his life, the two most important being his mother and cats.
The nice thing about HATE THAT CAT is the explicit teaching of multiple literary devices. Jack goes through the process of learning how to utilize alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, metaphor, and simile in his writing, with the help of quality examples. HATE THAT CAT would be extremely useful in the classroom.
Poets included in HATE THAT CAT are:
Walter Dean Myers
William Carlos Williams
Edgar Allan Poe
Valerie Worth
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Christopher Myers
T. S. Eliot
The poems that are referenced throughout HATE THAT CAT are included in the back of the book.
Reviewed by: Karin Librarian
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Together with 'Love That Dog' Sharon Creech has written a pair of children's books here that defy easy classification. Part poetry, part study guide and part emotional journey the stories are written in the style of a classroom journal - which is also a conversation between a boy and his teacher. This approach is highly effective and disarmingly brief - it's not easy to convey so much depth with so few words.
Ultimately I think that it's worth taking a chance here. These stories can be comfortably read in an evening but I suspect that they'll also benefit from repeat attention.
Ultimately I think that it's worth taking a chance here. These stories can be comfortably read in an evening but I suspect that they'll also benefit from repeat attention.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is the companion volume to Sharon Creech's seminal Love That Dog, which was all about a boy called Jack beginning to learn about poetry with his teacher Mrs. Stretchberry. It sounds dull, but Creech's wonderful poetic approach to the subject and the clever way she included accessible poems and the story of Jack and his relationship with his dog Sky meant that it was compelling and brilliant.
I was unsure about Hate That Cat. I've had it for a long time and only just steeled myself to read it in case it was a disappointment. It isn't. Jack is in the next year at school and Mrs. Stretchberry is still there to guide him through the world of poetry. As well as finding out about poets like William Carlos Williams and Edgar Allan Poe we also discover more about Jack's life.
The books work at several levels, as a story, as an introduction to poetry, as ways of showing how children can express complex, deep emotions and as narrative poems in their own right. I love them, and if you are looking for a way to get children interested in poetry and deal with the question of why we should study poetry I can recommend this book and its companion highly.
I was unsure about Hate That Cat. I've had it for a long time and only just steeled myself to read it in case it was a disappointment. It isn't. Jack is in the next year at school and Mrs. Stretchberry is still there to guide him through the world of poetry. As well as finding out about poets like William Carlos Williams and Edgar Allan Poe we also discover more about Jack's life.
The books work at several levels, as a story, as an introduction to poetry, as ways of showing how children can express complex, deep emotions and as narrative poems in their own right. I love them, and if you are looking for a way to get children interested in poetry and deal with the question of why we should study poetry I can recommend this book and its companion highly.
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