Love That Dog by Sharon Chreech

I apologize for the spacing problems with this post. 

Love That Dog by Sharon Chreech is SUCH a good book, though some parts are sad. I will let an E-mail I sent to my aunt tell you how good Love That Dog is:

I want ... wait no NEED Hate That Cat. Love That Dog is sooo sad, though!

(Key: Hate That Cat = sequel to Love That Dog)

Love That Dog is about a young boy named Jack,who's in school learning about poetry. In the beginning of the book he"mocks"real poems that they read in class by rewriting all the words to explain how he doesn't get poetry at   all. Sometimes, he'll write a poem using the same style and say that he doesn't get why the poem is about that specific topic. Before long the book turns into him writing poems about his dog, Sky. Over the course of the book Jack gets inspired by a poem written by Walter Dean Myers. Soon he writes Walter Dean Myers a letter asking him if he would come to his school.

One of the poems Jack wrote is:

Blue car, blue car, shining bright 

in the darkness of the night:

who could see you speeding by

like a comet in the sky?

I could see you in the night,

blue car, blue car, shining bright.

I could see you speeding by

like a comet in the sky.

 I like the fact that this whole book is written in poems. My favorite poem that she writes is the mocking of Tiger Tiger by William Blake (that I typed earlier in this blog post). I think I like it because my school's chorus sang Tiger Tiger so when I read that poem I heard my school chorus singing those words. I think a very cool thing about this book is that in the back of it is all of the poems that he references in the book. This book is a good book for people of any age, yet some people may cry more that the others (like my aunt and I). For the younger people the fact that it is written in poems helps them because they can stop at the end of each line and process what they just read. I think it is also good for older people because they will (probably) recognize the poems that that she uses in the book. Plus, it's a book that you can read (and finish) when you don't have the book you are currently reading.

I hope you love this book like I did!

Warning: I recommend you keep a box of tissues with you while you read this book.

Also, Hate That Cat (the sequel) is already out.

Wonder Struck by Brian Selznick

The book Wonder Struck is by Brian Selznick, who wrote the Caldecott Award winner The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a book that is told in pictures and words (about 50-50). The way he writes his books is in a very special way, the slower, dialogue heavy parts of the book he does in words and the more action-y parts of the book he does in pictures. In Wonder Struck he does it differently, one of the stories is in pictures and the other is done in words. It give the book that sense of wonder when one of them is missing words and the other is missing pictures. Wonder Struck is one of those books where there are two different stories going on at the same time, but close to the end of the book the stories become intertwined.

So be on the look out for this cover in book stores during the month of October (when it comes out)!

                                         

I will make another blog post on this book when this book comes out.