뉴베리 수상작가 샤론 크리치 신작

크리스토퍼 상 수상작 <Love That Dog>의 후속작 <Hate That Cat>

버스 정류장에 있는 나무에 뚱뚱한 검은 고양이가 걸려버렸어요. 잭은 그저 도와주려던 것 뿐인데 고양이는 고마운 줄도 모르고 잭을 할퀴어버렸지 뭐에요? 

잭은 학교에서 스트레치베리 선생님에게 새로운 시를 배우기 시작했어요. 윌리엄 카를로스 윌리엄스부터 발레리 워스, T.S. 엘리엇까지도요. 시간이 지날수록 잭은 점차 고양이를 사랑하는 법을 배웠고, 자신을 표현하는 또다른 방법을 찾아내기 시작했답니다.

Return to Miss Stretchberry's class with Jack, the reluctant poet, who over the course of a year encounters new and challenging things like metaphors, alliterations, onomatopoeia, and one mean fat black cat!

The Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech, introduced Jack in Love That Dog, a New York Times bestseller. Both Love That Dog and Hate That Cat are approachable, funny, warm-hearted introductions to poetry told from the point of view of a very real kid wrestling with school assignments.

These books are fast reads that will be welcomed by middle graders as they too wonder how poetry and schoolwork connect with their interests and how to uncover their true voices.

In Hate That Cat, Jack is only trying to save that fat black cat stuck in the tree by his bus stop—but the cat scratches him instead! At school Miss Stretchberry begins teaching new poems, everything from William Carlos Williams to Valerie Worth to T.S. Eliot.

As the year progresses, Jack gradually learns to love that cat and finds new ways to express himself.