I'm not a huge fan of poetry, to be honest. At least not the opaque, hoity toity kind.
So I totally sympathized with our protagonist, a young boy who at first thinks poetry is stupid and that only girls write poems.
Over the course of the short novel--written in verse, of course--he slowly and adorably changes his mind.
I smiled. I cried. I felt happy about good teachers and about kids who discover all the worlds they can unlock through the written word.
It was creative and well-written, and I think it might help lessen some young readers' poetryphobia.
Note: the poems referred to in the novel appear in the back of the book, but I wish I'd known that as I was reading.
I Love that Dog and I Love that Book.
5 stars! (And I don't often give 5 stars to fiction)
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