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Book Title:

Author(s):

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist:

Publisher:

Copyright Date:

Genre:

Brief Annotation:

Your Rating (1-5) and why:

Readers who will like this book:

Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) :

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age):

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade):
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3. List awards

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Monday, January 23, 2012

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly

Book Title: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly

Author(s): Simms Taback

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Simms Taback

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Copyright Date: 1997

Genre: Picturebook, Fantasy, Poetry

Brief Annotation: This book of poetry tells the story of an old woman who does crazy things for reasons that are unknown to us. She first swallows a fly, which seems just absurd! She then begins swallowing a whole lot of different animals in order to eat the previous animal that she just swallowed. With the cutouts in the book, we are able to see all of the different things the woman has swallowed at the story progresses. It ends tragically as the woman dies due to eating a horse. The moral of the story: never eat a horse.

Your Rating (1-5) and why: 5 – This is book is comical and funny and brings out a side of us that just laughs. Children would find the things the woman eat absolutely crazy but funny and keeps the students on their toes wondering what will happen to the old lady. The illustrations are funny and different and the cut out of the woman’s stomach allows the students to see what is in her belly; it makes the book even more fun.

Readers who will like this book: Young children with a sense of humor and imagination. A child who likes to rhyme and can find the comedy in most situations.

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud: What is the craziest thing you have ever eaten?


Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age): K – 3

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade): 1.9

3. List awards: Caldecott Honor book

4. Does this book have a book trailer? No

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