I absolutely loved this book! The poems were so simple, yet very practical and explicit in their meaning. Jack mimicked Walter Dean Myers style of poetry and wrote several poems in this book. Jack’s poems were very personal and were related to the current happenings in his life. He even wrote about his fear of writing poetry and his fear of having his work posted on the board for other people to see.
I think this book is very inspirational, especially for hesitant writers. It puts a new writer’s fears on the forefront and walks people through the process of overcoming a fear of writing. This book would be wonderful to use with a classroom of boys. It would show them that poetry has no limits and that it is something fun with which they can experiment.
