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Summary: Good golly Granny--show some manners!
Review: *Hilarious* is the only word to describe this picture book which is a take off of the classic "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. When an "old lady" comes to Thanksgiving dinner she swallows a pumpkin pie--whole. To wash down the pie (which was really too dry) she gulps some cider which "rumbles and mumbles and grumbles" inside her. Then to the horror of the adults and the delight of the children she gobbles the entire Thanksgiving feast! The illustrations cap off the delightful text and add even more fantastic humor as the old lady grows in proportion with each outlandish bite. A must read for story time--kids will be giggling more with every turn of the page. And you'll be "thankful" you don't have such a relative. Or do you? Karma Wilson
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Summary: There are much better books than this one out there!
Review: As a preschool teacher who tries to include all kinds of traditions in my classroom, I'm always on the lookout for a new fun book. The kids do love I Know and Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. That book is so preposterous - who could REALLY swallow a horse? However, this book takes the tradition of eating too much at Thanksgiving way overboard, with the woman who eats a family sized meal on her own, and ends up as a blimp sized balloon in the holiday parade. The illustrations show her bumpy fat body getting bigger and bigger. Children are already taught too young that they will get fat if they overeat. Childhood eating disorders are on the rise. One study showed that 40% of 4th graders are on diets. Children point out fat people to their parents in public, and parents never know what to say - it's hard to teach size-acceptance and tolerance in general to a child in the first place, but to add these pictures and negative stereotypes of fat people to a child's imaginative repertoire is not necessarily a good idea. 1 star for this book is 1 too many!
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Summary: Good Book Except for one thing...
Review: I love this book! It is very funny, and the illustrations are great. Kids love the cumulative text, and will want to recite the book over and over. Great Thanksgiving books for preschoolers and young elementary school aged kids are hard to find, and this is one of the best!
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Summary: Great Story
Review: I've only read the reviews of this book and it sounds great! I'm actually too old to be reading these kinds of stories but I just love how the old ladies in the "who swallowed a..." books get fatter and fatter. If only I could actually read the book. Gotta work on getting this book and some of the other related books!
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Summary: Fun Story with hilarious pictures!!
Review: My children and I live this story. It became more fantastical as it went on and when Judy's illustrations display the woman as a Thansgiving parade balloon, it got raves of laughter from the kids! The details of the pictures add to the story. The dead mouse was fun to look for on each page!
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Summary: Hilariously funny Thanksgiving tale!!!
Review: My children enjoyed this book emensely! Wonderful illustrations ! A new "Thanksgiving read" tradition!
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Summary: Hilariously funny!
Review: My daughter loves this book. It's one of her favorites that's read over and over again. We still laugh when we read it and look at the little old lady's teeny-tiny feet. The hilarious illustrations in this book tell a story of their own. This is one of those "must haves" for your child's library.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: My kindergartners absolutely loved this story! They began speaking the lines along with me as I read. It's hilarious!
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Summary: interactive puppet theater
Review: My preschool classroom loves to help tell this story with a simple paper bag puppet with a cellophane stomach. A little clipart depicting all the items this grandmotherly woman consumes allows the children to actually feed the puppet. They love this story and it is a "PRA" (please read again) book in our class!
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Summary: My son got up and walked away!!!
Review: My son received several new books including this one. He actually got up and walked away while I was reading this one. And he loves to read a varity of books. We enjoyed the Old lady who swallowed a fly. This starts out with a pie and continues until the old Lady eats the entire thanks giving meal. She grows bigger and bigger and lumpier and lumpier until she becomes a thanksgiving balloon in a parade. I also didn't care for the illustrations. Our Thanksgiving meal is special and this illustrated a an old lady getting uglier and uglier. Well, it just didn't do any thing for me. I did read other people's reviews and I see that other families did enjoy this book. I could live without reading it again. And my 3 yr old son doesn't have any interest in it and he can sit for an hour reading many different books with me.
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