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This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

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UPC:
9780618616800
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
2007-04-09
Release Date:
2007-04-09
Author:
Joyce Sidman
Language:
english
Edition:
0
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When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology, they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them together into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom they apologized to write poems back.

In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and rhymes, Mrs. Merzs class writes of crushes, overbearing parents, loving and losing pets, and more. Some poets are deeply sorry; some not at all. Some are forgiven; some are not. In each pair of poems a relationship, a connection, is revealed.