Love that Sharon Creech
Posted by kimford on February 6, 2009
For a long time now, I’ve been a big fan of Sharon Creech’s book Love that Dog. I loved Jack and Miss Stretchberry so much that I bought a classroom set to share with the English teachers in my building. You could teach your entire poetry unit with that book. At least that’s what I thought. But now, I’m convinced that you need another book… Hate that Cat. Jack and Miss Stretchberry are back for another round of reading and writing poetry. This time, they explore the sounds of poetry, and it looks like I’m going to have to buy another classroom set.
As a cat lover, I was initially put off by the title – but it all comes right in the end. One of Jack’s final poems in the book is titled “Love that Cat”, again with apologies to Mr. Walter Dean Myers who makes another appearance. As with all good sequels, we learn more about Jack in this book, and we learn why the sound of poetry is so important to him. If there’s a third book in the series, maybe Jack can help us learn more about Miss Stretchberry.
