Love That Dog and Poetry Month

                          

I am so excited because April is poetry month!  I am a big fan of poetry.

Also, my class is going to read "Love That Dog" by Sharon Creech as part of a poetry unit in writing.  (Surprise! for those of you who are in my class) I love, love, love this book!  It's one of my favorites.  And I'm working on starting a book club at school as well.  If it works out, we'll read "Hate That Cat" also by Sharon Creech for the book club.

If you haven't read either of these books, they are short but powerful.  They are written in the point of view of Jack, a boy who does not like poetry at all.  He thinks poetry is for girls.  (Jack Prelutsky, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare and all the other millions of male poets in the world would strongly disagree, I'm sure).  If you haven't read it yet and aren't in my class, you should check out both books!  And if you are in my class, yay!  We get to read at least one of the books together!  :-)

For everyone:
Check out Ms. Creech's website:  http://www.sharoncreech.com/

And some fun poetry websites:

http://www.jackprelutsky.com/ - One of my favorite hilarious poets!

http://www.poetry4kids.com/ - This site is done by Kenn Nesbitt - another favorite of mine and VERY funny!

http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html - The master of poetry, in my opinion, Mr. Shel Silverstein, author of Where the Sidewalk Ends.

Well, I'm off to start a book my daughter suggested for me:  The Willoughbys.  She assures me it's very funny...Stay tuned for comments on The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry...

Happy Reading!

Mrs. H