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Title: Love That Dog by Sharon Creech ISBN: 0-06-440959-7 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (79 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Poems Collar Great Book
Comment: 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!
Rating: 5
Summary: Love this book ... and others too!
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Love this book!
Comment: 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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Title: Everything on a Waffle (Newbery Honor Book) by Polly Horvath ISBN: 0374322368 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 04 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The School Story by Andrew Clements, Brian Selznick ISBN: 0689851863 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles ISBN: 0152045686 Publisher: Gulliver Books Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo ISBN: 0763616052 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Wanderer by Sharon Creech, David Diaz ISBN: 0064410323 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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