There is so much I love about this book! It is from the Mercy Watson series (or is it The Tales From Decawoo Drive series?) It has metaphors. It has drama. It has hilarious illustrations. It has a villain (Horace Broom....that guy in class who seems to have his hand up for EVERYTHING). It has a mean old secretary who guards the door to the mean old principal. It has a wise caretaker. And it has Mercy Watson. What more could anyone ask for?!
This will definitely be our next read aloud when we are doing a poetry unit.
Goodreads says:
Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door — a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella’s poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the classroom, Miss Liliana banishes them to the principal’s office. Will the two of them find a way to turn this opposite-of-a-poem day around? In the newest spirited outing in the Deckawoo Drive series by Kate DiCamillo, anything is possible — even a friendship with a boy deemed to be (metaphorically speaking) an overblown balloon.
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