Love That Dog is a free verse piece written by Sharon Creech and published by HarperCollins.

It is written in diary format, in the perspective of a young boy who resists poetry assignments from his teacher.

[1] The author drew inspiration from Walter Dean Myers' poem, Love That Boy.

As the novel develops and Jack's confidence grows, so does his literary style.

Jack hints, but only directly tells at the end, that his dog named Sky got run over by a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.