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    <body><![CDATA[I really like this book. Ditulis oleh Joyce Sidman, tapi seolah ditulis oleh anak-anak grade 6, yang isinya permintaan maaf. Ada permintaan maaf dari anak ke ibunya, ada yang dari murid ke guru, ada juga dari teman ke teman.<br/><br/>Yang unik, buku ini terbagi 2 part. Part 1 berisi puisi perminta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32310790">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Inspired by WCW's &quot;This is Just to Say,&quot; a fictional class writes and sends a set of apology poems and then receives responses, in poetry, of course.<br/><br/>I rather like this faux anthology.  It's been done than I expected.  Sidman went farther than just lighthearted fair and the book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47355281">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Just to Say is a book of poems written by a class of sixth graders who were asked to write poetic apologies as a class assignments. The class enjoyed the assignments so much that they compiled a book of their classmates' apologies. The second part of the book included the replies to the apol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78807958">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a neat book! This book was originally written by a class of sixth graders who were working on an assignment to write poems to say you're sorry.  It turned out so successful that they turned it into a book.  It didn't stop there! In addition, they all got to write responses to the people whom th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78079690">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[OMG!!<br/>This book is the BEST especially because it has pieces written by 6th graders]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm using this for a poetry/poultry workshop for kids this summer.  This book is sooo good.  This is a book of apology poems as written by 6th graders based on the William Carlos Williams poem of the same title.  I mean, kids know all about apologies, right?  They're made to apologize all the time w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57752098">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Texas Bluebonnet for the '08-'09 school year. Joyce Sidman creates a classroom where students write poems of apologies in their 6th grade English class.  Those people that the poems were directed to write back their responses in poetry form for the second half of the book.  I loved the poems!  Some ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25749361">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As the introduction by (fictional) sixth-grader Anthony K. explains, This is Just to Say is a two-part collection of apology poems written by Mrs. Merz's class and the poetic responses to the apologies from the people to whom the poems were written.  The collection's title, and the class's assignmen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41560442">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book of poetry was my favorite so far!  The poems in this book were written by 6th graders and their teacher.  The first half of the book is poems of apology--the students wrote poems to someone they hurt about what they did to hurt that person.  Some are funny, and some are heart wrenching. Ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70552307">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Grab a kleenex!<br/><br/>In this book, elementary students write letter-poems of apology for all sorts of misbehaviors. Then, a response letter of forgiveness is in the second section of the book. These would be wonderful to use in a classroom when discussing classroom conduct and rules, in ethics...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64656965">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Initially I picked this up for Pamela Zagarenski's illustration. I'd read &quot;Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors&quot; and loved her subtle use of color. But the illustration is hardly the main attraction here. The collage element is nice, but otherwise the pictures are simple drawings. Zag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50279601">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In general, free verse books for kids scare me, because most of them (here I am thinking of <em>Out of the Dust</em>) are things that I know I would never have wanted to read when I was a kid. Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky are what kids like in poetry.<br/><br/>However, this book is fascinating. What...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23453834">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was very enthusiastic about this book until I read the jacket cover.  If at first you think these are poems written by a 6th grade class, inspired by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Just_To_Say">the famous poem of apology</a> by William Carlos Williams, you will love this book.  When you find out they're not really, it's still a good book, but n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22054798">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of poetry is written as if by a classroom full of kids. Mrs. Mertz's class read the poem &quot;This is Just to Say&quot; by William Carlos Williams and  then decided to write their own &quot;I'm sorry&quot; poems. They collected the poems along with response poems and illustrations i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16215260">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Just to say is an anthology of poems of apology.  It made the list of best books in 2007 according to School Library Journal.  Sidman's fictional 6th grade class is asked to write poems to say &quot;sorry' to someone. Some of the poems recipients write poems of forgiveness in response. For t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19228450">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Illustrations by Pamela Zagarenksi<br/><br/>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&#8217;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.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[At first, I was shocked to see the Bluebonnet committee had nominated two books of poetry this year. Two books of poetry! Then I reconsidered this idea…Why not? If you can have almost half your choices be realistic fiction, why not have two books of poetry? I was moderately interested in the idea ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64822522">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Illustrations by Pamela Zagarenksi<br/><br/>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&#8217;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.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like Sidman and Zagarenski's collaborations (this and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6121819.Red_Sings_from_Treetops_A_Year_in_Colors" title="Red Sings from Treetops  A Year in Colors by Joyce Sidman">Red Sings from Treetops</a> and, although I don't normally like poetry written explicitly for children, I really enjoyed these gentle apology poems. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77152534">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book! I love the poems. I love the illustrations. I love the idea.<br/><br/>But the only way it could get 5 stars is if it was actually done by kids. It was <em>very</em> sneaky of the author never to mention anywhere that the story was MADE UP! Only on the back flap does it say that she got th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61300235">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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