Hate That Cat

This book is basically a huge poem, with stanzas instead of paragraphs. It is about a boy called Jack who writes poems that are inspired by other famous poets, he even sent a postcard to his favourite poet - William Carlos Williams. Jack reads these poems to his mother, who is deaf so he used hand signals to communicate. Many of these are about a black fat cat who he really despises. He hopes to become a famous poet when he grows up just like William Carlos Williams.

In this book there are different types of poems e.g. shape poems, rhyming poems. They also include onomatopoeia, similes, metaphors...