Publisher description for This is just to say : poems of apology / by Joyce Sidman ; illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski.
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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. Merz"s 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.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Apologizing -- Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, American.