What a quick and easy read (I think it took me less than 30 minutes to read), but yet there was so much to take from the text and get out of it. It was actually kind of inspiring to me. I really hate writing poetry and have never enjoyed it. I feel like I am doing it wrong (if that is even possible) and this little boy was just throwing word and feelings on a page and created something awesome. His confidence in writing went from zero to 100% so quickly and his teachers encouragement and response really helped in to continue to try. I think a very important part to teaching is to encourage your students to believe in themselves and this book is a prime example. Without encouragement this student would still be at page 1. I thought it was cool that the poetry still constructed a story and had a beginning, middle and end in poetic form and the boy had no idea that he was doing such a thing. Sharon Creech sounded like a familiar author and after reading her biography, I realized I had read many of her books growing up (Walk Two Moons and Bloomability really ring a bell). I really liked Jack's poem, My Sky, because it was so emotional and you could tell that he was really passionate about it and really loved his dog. I also liked how the writing stayed consistent and didn't change from poetic style to a normal journal entry. I would definitely read this as a read aloud but I would make sure that everyone had a copy of the book so they could see the format and I think it would be a good book to talk about the format of poetry and how it works and the freedoms you have with it to write.
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