Love That Dog/Hate That Cat - Sharon Creech

Category: Children, General Fiction, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: Animals Writing

Written by Sharon Creech
Read by Scott Wolf
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

Love That Dog shows how one boy named Jack finds his voice with the help of a teacher, a pencil, some yellow paper, and, of course, a dog. Written as a series of free-verse poems from Jack’s point of view, and with classic poetry included in the back matter, this novel is perfect for kids and teachers, too.

Jack hates poetry. Only girls write it and every time he tries to, his brain feels empty. But his teacher, Miss Stretchberry, won’t stop giving her class poetry assignments - and Jack can’t avoid them. But then something amazing happens. The more he writes, the more he learns that he does have something to say.

“I guess it does look like a poem when you see it typed up like that.”

September 2 2005
34 mins

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Jack
Room 204 - Miss Stretchberry

February 25

Today the fat black cat
up in the tree by the bus stop
dropped a nut on my head
thunk
and when I yelled at it
that fat black cat said
Murr-mee-urrr
in a
nasty
spiteful
way.

I hate that cat.

This is the story of
Jack
words
sounds
silence
teacher
and cat.

September 23 2008
1 hr and 2 mins