JACK
Room 204 - Miss Stretchberry
February 25
Today the fat black cat
up in the tree by the bus stop
dropped a nut on my head
thunk
and when I yelled at it
that fat black cat said
Murr-mee-urrr
in a
nasty
spiteful
way.
I hate that cat.
This is the story of
Jack
words
sounds
silence
teacher
and cat.
All poems in the Hate That Cat audiobook are used by permission:
Love That Boy
from Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse
by Walter Dean Myers. Copyright © 1993 by Walter Dean Myers.
Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Love That Dog
from Love That Dog
by Sharon Creech. Copyright © 2001 by Sharon Creech.
Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
My Yellow Dog
from Love That Dog
by Sharon Creech. Copyright © 2001 by Sharon Creech.
Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
The Red Wheelbarrow,
“This is Just to Say,” “To a Poor Old Woman,” “Poem (As the cat),” by William Carlos Williams, from Collected Poems: 1909 - 1939, Volume I.
Copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp.
Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
kitten
from All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth.
Copyright © 1987, 1994 by Valerie Worth
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
From The Black Cat by Christopher Myers. Scholastic Inc./Scholastic Press.
Copyright © 1999 by Christopher Myers. Reprinted by permission.
The Naming of Cats
from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, copyright 1939 by T.S. Eliot and renewed 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.
From the Compact Disc edition.