Reviewed by Karin Librarian for TeensReadToo.com

Jack is back! Miss Stretchberry moved up with him so luckily he has her as a teacher again. It's time for Miss Stretchberry's poetry unit again, and this time Jack isn't as reluctant to call himself a poet.

While Jack does write about Sky, his lovable, yellow dog from LOVE THAT DOG, most of his poems focus on a fat, black neighborhood cat that he absolutely can't stand.

Just like in LOVE THAT DOG, Jack uses poetry to discover his true feelings about some important things in his life, the two most important being his mother and cats.

The nice thing about HATE THAT CAT is the explicit teaching of multiple literary devices. Jack goes through the process of learning how to utilize alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, metaphor, and simile in his writing, with the help of quality examples. HATE THAT CAT would be extremely useful in the classroom.

Poets included in HATE THAT CAT are:

Walter Dean Myers
William Carlos Williams
Edgar Allan Poe
Valerie Worth
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Christopher Myers
T. S. Eliot

The poems that are referenced throughout HATE THAT CAT are included in the back of the book. ( )

This realistic fiction story is a wonderful sequel to Sharon Creech's first book of this kind, Love That Dog. This story is realistic because it tells the story of a boy's experience with poetry through a series of journal entries that he writes for school. This book also fits in the poetry genre because the boy explores writing various poems in the styles of famous poets. Students will enjoy the humor in this story and will be able to relate to the boy's frustrations, as well as his successes. They will also be encouraged to read poetry on their own, and maybe even begin their own journal entries to coincide with what they are learning. ( )

Jack is back! Miss Stretchberry moved up with him so luckily he has her as a teacher again. It’s time for Miss Stretchberry’s poetry unit again and this time Jack isn’t as reluctant to call himself a poet. While Jack does write about Sky, his lovable, yellow dog from LOVE THAT DOG, most of his poems focus on a fat, black neighborhood cat that he absolutely can’t stand. Just like in LOVE THAT DOG, Jack uses poetry to discover his true feelings about some important things in his life; the two most important being his mother and cats.The nice thing about HATE THAT CAT is the explicit teaching of multiple literary devices. Jack goes through the process of learning how to utilize alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, metaphor, and simile in his writing, with the help of quality examples. HATE THAT CAT would be extremely useful in the classroom.Poets included in HATE THAT CAT are:Walter Dean MyersWilliam Carlos WilliamsEdgar Allan PoeValerie WorthAlfred, Lord TennysonChristopher MyersT. S. EliotThe poems that are referenced throughout HATE THAT CAT are included in the back of the book. ( )

the sequel to Love That Dog. Hat that Cat is written in free verse. Jack writes in his poetry journal to Miss Stretchberry about his feelings about cats, his dog, his mom who is deaf and also tries out poetic expression. ( )

This sequel to Love That Dog, is amazing. It follows the same sequence and provides child insight into popular poems as well as events in life. Truely inspirational. Appropriate for third grade and up... ( )