Sonderbooks Book Review of

by Sharon Creech

Hate That Cat

by Sharon Creech

Review posted May 25, 2009.
Joanna Cotler Books (HarperCollins), 2008. 153 pages.
Starred Review

Hooray! Miss Stretchberry moved up a grade, and Jack is in her class once again! This wonderful follow-up to Love That Dog features Jack doing further explorations with poetry as well as coming to terms with the cat next door.

Hate That Cat plays with language, as Jack writes poems in the style of poets like William Carlos Williams, Walter Dean Myers, and even Edgar Allen Poe. (The example poems are included at the back.)

This is a wonderful exploration of what you can do with poetry, but along the way it tells a heart-warming story about Jack, who still misses his dog, Sky.

Here's a wonderful poem Jack writes about his mother, who is deaf:

This book doesn't take long to read, but it will inspire even an adult reader to look at poetry in a new way.