Love That Dog!

"Love that Dog", is a very short novel about a boy named Jack who loves to write poems. However Jack doesn't want to write poetry in the beginning of the book. He thinks that his poetry is bad and he doesn't want anyone to see who wrote them. When Jack's teacher Mrs. Stretchberry asks the class to write a poem about a pet Jack begins to feel inconfident. Since he used to have a dog named Sky who had tragically died, he decided to write about her. He finds a poet named Walter Dean Myers who comes into Jack's class. He makes Jack feel better about his ability's and Jack starts writing more poems.