TY - BOOK N2 - 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. AB - 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. T1 - This is just to say :poems of apology and forgiveness / DA - ©2007. CY - Boston : AU - Sidman, Joyce. AU - Zagarenski, Pamela, CN - PS3569.I295 CN - PS3569.I295 PB - Houghton Mifflin Co., PP - Boston : PY - ©2007. ID - 1360370 KW - Apologizing KW - Children's poetry, American. KW - Apologizing KW - American poetry. SN - 9780618616800 SN - 0618616802 SN - 1428735682 SN - 9781428735682 SN - 9780544105072 SN - 0544105079 TI - This is just to say :poems of apology and forgiveness / ER -