num_pages: 48
description: 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.
language: English
title: This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
titlecomplete: This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
genres: Family, Picture Books, Poetry, Juvenile, Nonfiction, Humor, Middle Grade, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 816
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Claudia Lewis Award
publisher: Clarion Books