{"id":412,"date":"2009-03-09T22:03:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/review-of-hate-that-cat-by-sharon-creech\/"},"modified":"2009-03-09T22:09:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:09:48","slug":"review-of-hate-that-cat-by-sharon-creech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Review of Hate That Cat, by Sharon Creech"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hate That Cat<\/em><\/p>\n

by Sharon Creech<\/p>\n

Joanna Cotler Books (HarperCollins), 2008.\u00a0 153 pages.<\/p>\n

Starred review.<\/p>\n

Hooray!\u00a0 Miss Stretchberry moved up a grade, and Jack is in her class once again!\u00a0 This wonderful follow-up to Love That Dog<\/em> features Jack doing further explorations with poetry as well as coming to terms with the cat next door.<\/p>\n

Hate That Cat<\/em> plays with language, as Jack writes poems in the style of poets like William Carlos Williams, Walter Dean Myers, and even Edgar Allen Poe.\u00a0 (The example poems are included at the back.)<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Here’s a wonderful poem Jack writes about his mother, who is deaf:<\/p>\n

SILENT SOUNDS OF MOM<\/em><\/p>\n

(Inspired by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe)<\/em><\/p>\n

by Jack<\/em><\/p>\n

See her hands in the air <\/em>waving here waving there!<\/em><\/p>\n

What flickering formations<\/em><\/p>\n

those compositions dare!<\/em><\/p>\n

How she sing sing sings<\/em><\/p>\n

in a swish and a bound<\/em><\/p>\n

bringing sound sound sound<\/em><\/p>\n

To the silence of the air<\/em><\/p>\n

to the silentabulation of the hush<\/em><\/p>\n

and the hums<\/em><\/p>\n

of the air, air, air, air,<\/em><\/p>\n

air, air, air–<\/em><\/p>\n

of the humming and the hushing<\/em><\/p>\n

of the air.<\/em><\/p>\n

This book doesn’t take long to read, but it will inspire even an adult reader\u00a0to look at poetry in a new way.<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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