There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

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Location	Collection	Call #
Cooper-Siegel Community Library	Childrens' Audio Visual	j CD KIT THE
Location	Cooper-Siegel Community Library
Collection	Childrens' Audio Visual
Call Number	j CD KIT THE

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Summary

Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "Ages 4^-7. Although there are many versions of this perennial favorite, this is one of the funniest and most innovative yet. The funky art and the terrific humor are a winning combination. The song remains the same, but the animals involved add their own rhyming commentary on the situation: Says the cat of the fly, "She gulped it out of the sky." The illustrations are cleverly handled. For example, a left-hand page shows the dog surrounded by other canine types, while the old lady is pictured on the opposite page, with a cutout in her dress that reveals a picture of everything she has swallowed so far; turn the page, and the cutout surrounds the next victim--in this case, the unfortunate dog. Newspaper headlines ("Senior Swallows Cat" and "Lady Wolfs Down Dog") keep up with the story, and there's a moral at the close: "Never swallow a horse." The many details in the artwork ensure a new surprise with each reading, making for a fun-filled romp for young and old alike. A brief note on the song concludes. --Helen Rosenberg"
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "In Taback's (Joseph Had a Little Overcoat) ingenious take on the cumulative tale, there's a die-cut hole where the old lady's stomach should be, so the audience can see where everything she swallows ends up. What's more, the hole grows bigger to accommodate the increasing gastro-population‘by the tale's end, it's the size and shape of the horse that causes her demise. The digested wide-eyed animals float in a confetti-dusted space (which matches her dress), while everything about the elderly woman's exterior is equally askew, including the pupils in her eyes. Older children should get a kick out of the amusing asides liberally tucked into every spread. For example, there are bogus front page headlines ("LADY WOLFS DOWN DOG" screams one); a recipe for "Spider's Soup"; editorial comments by the menagerie and Taback himself ("Even the artist is crying," says a small caricature of Taback when she meets her gluttonous end); as well as factual information (various types of flies, birds or dogs are clearly labeled and paired with accurate pictures). The gleefully dizzy mood is intensified by Taback's use of black hand-lettered words set in blocks of bright colors laid atop orange or black backgrounds, and occasionally sprinkled with collage images (whose sources range from old field guides to the Wall Street Journal). Children of all ages will joyfully swallow this book whole. All ages. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information

Subjects	Folk songs, English -- Texts -- Juvenile sound recordings. Toy and movable books -- Specimens. Folk songs. Nonsense verses. Toy and movable books. Children's audiobooks.
Publisher	Pine Plains, N.Y. :Live Oak Media,2001
Contributors	Chapin, Tom, 1945-
Participants/Performers	Performed by Tom Chapin.
Language	English
Notes	Compact disc. Track 1: Narration with page turn signals. Track 2: Narration with no page turn signals. Track 3: song. Accompanying book published: New York : Scholastic, 1999.
Awards	Caldecott Honor Book, 1998
Description	1 audio disc (23 min. 28 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 cm + 1 book (1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm)
ISBN	1591124085 (set) 1591124077 (disc)
Other	Classic View