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It's about Dogs
By Johnston, Tony & Rand, Ted
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-15202-022-4
- Publisher
- San Diego : Harcourt, c2000.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2000
Gr 4-8 "Silent as smoke/it moved close/to the fire./It was faithful/and stayed." Johnston's fine panoply of dog poems introduces "The First Dog" and eventually circles around to that dog that "knows a phantom/life./At moonrise/he remembers he is/wolf." Like the canines they celebrate, the poems are of varied size and shape. Rhymed quatrains, haiku, blank verse, and even doggerel find a place in ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
