Love That Dog

I really enjoyed reading Love That Dog by Sharon Creech. It was a quick and engaging read. Love That Dog is about a boy, Jack, who begins class with Miss Stretchberry not enjoying poetry and believing that only girls write poems. Miss Stretchberry encourages and inspires Jack to write poetry. She reads the class poetry and Jack's interest is stimulated by the poetry of Walter Dean Myers who Jack gets to come visit the school.

I really like the format of Love That Dog. I think it is really neat how the book is set up as Jack's journal entries to his teacher. Although the teacher's response isn't shared you get a general idea of her replies through Jack's responses. The interesting thing about this format is you get an idea of what Miss Stretchberry writes to Jack without it actually being stated. While there were many times that I wanted to know exactly what she wrote to Jack, as the reader I was able to use my imagination and explore different possibilities of what she was writing to Jack. I also like how Jack's entries were set up in poem form which was fitting for the story. I likd everythign about the set up and think that it is very creative!