Article: Sharon Creech: Hate That Cat.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)

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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