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Article: Sharon Creech: Hate That Cat.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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Sharon Creech Hate That Cat
153 pp. Cotler/HarperCollins 10/08 ISBN 978-0-06-143092-3 $15.99
Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-143093-0 $16.89
(Intermediate)
In this follow-up to Love That Dog (rev. 11/01), narrator Jack has moved up a grade in school but has the same inordinately understanding teacher. Jack continues to address Miss Stretchberry in free verse in which he explores what makes a real poem and struggles with the more rigid definition his uncle Bill uses: "a poem has to rhyme / and have regular meter / and SYMBOLS and METAPHORS / and onomoto-something and / alliter-something." As in the first book, Jack reacts to the poems ...
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Article: Sharon Creech Favorite book ...
The Washington Post;
September 30, 2003 ;
342 words
...Sharon Creech Favorite book by someone else: " 'True Believer,' by Virginia Euwer ... many times." Favorite food: "This week: mini Oreo cookies." Sharon Creech book you might want to read: "Granny Torrelli Makes Soup."
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