There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Hardcover

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Presents the traditional song with illustrations on die-cut pages that reveal all that the old lady swallows.

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Simms Taback is a famous American illustrator, who loves the artistic styles of diversified materials and hollowing out to make the pictures lively. His works have won hundreds of awards in art, and he won the 2000 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, and was a runner-up in 1998 for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.
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PreSchool-Grade 3. From cover to moral (never swallow a horse), this cleverly illustrated version of an old folk favorite will delight children. Each page is full of details and humorous asides, from the names of different types of birds, to a recipe for spider soup, to the rhyming asides from the spectating animals. As for the old lady, with her toothy grin and round bloodshot eyes, she looks wacky enough to go so far as to swallow a horse. A die-cut hole allows readers to see inside her belly, first the critters already devoured and, with the turn of the page, the new animal that will join the crowd in her ever-expanding stomach. The pattern of the lady's dress, with its patchwork of bright, torn colored paper pasted on black, is used as the background motif for the words. The text is handwritten on vivid strips of paper that are loosely placed on the patterned page, thus creating a lively interplay between the meaning of the words and their visual power. All in all, this illustrator provides an eye-catching, energy-filled interpretation that could easily become a classic in itself.?Martha Topol, Traverse Area District Library, Traverse City, MI
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  • PublisherScholastic
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 0590631888
  • ISBN 13 9780590631884
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages32
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