The novel is empathetic, joyful, and quite heartbreaking at times, hence creating a great book. At the same time, he learns to open up about his feelings on a subject learned only if you read the book. It was satisfying and heart-warming to watch Jack grow as a poet, come to appreciate the art of poetry, and come to terms with something so heartbreaking. Love that Dog is a story about a young boy named Jack, and how he learns to love poetry. This was such a short, emotional read that expresses the power of both poetry and the freedom that comes from talking about grief. 1 The author drew inspiration from Walter Dean Myers ' poem, Love That Boy. It is written in diary format, in the perspective of a young boy who resists poetry assignments from his teacher. In the end, we read a poem that Jack wrote that was inspired by Walter Dean Myers’s poem “Love That Boy.” Creech also includes the poems that Jack mentions in the back of the book for reference. Love That Dog is a free verse piece written by Sharon Creech and published by HarperCollins. He writes about the happy memories that he has of Sky and is eventually able to write about the day of Sky’s death. Through these poems, we learn about the death of Jack’s beloved dog, Sky, and start to see Jack come to terms with this devastating effect. This is a novel written in poems that tells the story of Jack and how he comes to learn that poetry isn’t just “for girls.” There are several different styles of poetry throughout that Jack writes for assignments in his class.
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