Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

I thought this book was adorable. I was laughing the whole time I was reading it! I was recommended to read this by the little girl I work on my child study with so I was excited to read it for class. I liked the book because as I was reading the book I was trying to read the book from a child's perspective like I do with most of the other books we read for class, but I was finding myself looking at the book from a teacher's perspective. The teacher was giving the little boy great encouragement throughout his journaling which shows that with the support of the teacher the little boy went from thinking that poetry was for "girls" to enjoying poetry and even being interested in a particular poet that he had read. I agreed with the little boy that this book was easier to read because it had shorter lines. It felt like it was easier to keep my thought going like the little boy said it was for him. The only problem I had with his idea was that it may be hard for him to change his writing someday when he is forced to write in full lines someday. Overall I thought that this was a great example of the relationship that builds confident writers between teachers and students!