Advantages: Wonderful artwork, fun recitations, opportunity for Burl Ives impressions! Disadvantages: Takes a couple of weeks to arrive, not a cheap picture book.
...Ives in his musical guise: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly.
I may not sing it as well as Burl Ives, but I do think I've sung this song at least as many times as he did; it's our most favourite of favourites. I know, I know, I say that sort of thing all the time, but we do love this one. And even if you don't know anything about who sang most famously which most famous traditional songs, then you must have at least heard this one. We've ... ...was a child myself, but There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed A Fly has just been given a new lease of life in the Murphy house. We bought it in book form, illustrated by Simms Taback. And it's great. Have the first bit:
"There was an old lady that swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed the fly…
Perhaps she'll die"
Oh, just typing that wee little bit makes me laugh. I love the upbeat rhythm of the first line, the slowing down of the second, ...
jillmurphy 14.10.2002 (17.10.2002)
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Advantages: funny read and kids will love it. Disadvantages: the lady dies at the end!!
...that firstly swallows a fly, there is no reason given why she would do such a thing but she then continues to eat a spider in order to catch the fly, then a bird to catch the spider and so on and so on... As you follow the book through the same picture of the old lady is on each page and it has a catchy rhyme that tells you what she has just eaten with a picture of the animal inside her stomach with the previous animal inside their stomach. The book ... ...lady actually dies! There is no age range put on the book but with the contents and rhyming as they are I would say the child would need to be around the 4-5 year old mark. I would recommend this book to any child as it is a catchy and fun book that has been around for many years which just proves that it must be very popular. ...
pompeysmick11 21.03.2009
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