Saturday, November 21, 2009

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly by Simms Taback is a great poet story about an old lady who first swallowed a fly, but we don't know why. She continues to swallow other things to catch the fly, but eventually she ends up swallowing a horse, and of course, she dies! because no one can swallow a horse and live. This book is clever and continuously rhymes its sentences with a great deal of repetition. The illustrations are wonderful as well. They are bright and show exactly what is happening in the text therefore a child would be able to infer some of the text not only from the repetitive language used in the story but from the illustrations. Overall, this is a fun story that I would recommend for children!

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