I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

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Summary: Old Lady and a Fly...December 2000
Review: I feel that to get kids to learning and memorizing it is a good book. I do not feel that it is a very good book because she dies but it is a fantasy. I feel that it would be a good classroom project for a teacher to do. I would recomend a teacher reading it to her classroom

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Summary: Old Lady and a Fly...December 2000
Review: I feel that to get kids to learning and memorizing it is a good book. I do not feel that it is a very good book because she dies but it is a fantasy. I feel that it would be a good classroom project for a teacher to do. I would recomend a teacher reading it to her classroom

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Summary: I know an old lady who swallowed a fly
Review: I thought this was a very good story. I collect children's books and it was highly recommended to me. This is a must to have in your library of children's books.

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Summary: Perhaps perhaps perhaps
Review: Who knew the text of "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" belonged to the Hoosier Folklore Society? Not I said the .... you know. This is the classic song in which, "the solution proves worse than the predicament". In other words, the cure is worse than the disease. Here we have the supposed old lady (though I have my doubts considering her strong physique and lovely red hair) who has swallowed a fly. And whatta fly it is! This isn't your usual tiny crawling insect. On every other page we view a whopping magnificently HUGE fly, roughly the size of the old lady's head. Most of the creatures the old lady swallows to catch the previous animal are similarly horrific in some way. If your kids weren't afraid of spiders before this book, they will be now. And whatta hairy red-eyed sharp toothed bony kneed spider it is! This is followed next by the scariest chicken you ever did see (again red-eyed) and then a pupil-less (but nonetheless red-eyed) cat that stares off into space. You get the idea. The text is a little different from the versions of the song I remember from my own innocent youth. Instead of vaguely supposing, "perhaps she'll die" at the end of every line, this book comes to the absolute conclusion that "I guess she'll die". Seems logical. And sure enough the last page displays a blank tombstone with a single blue bottle containing three woebegotten red flowers sitting on the grass. Read this book well (or sing it) and the kids'll come screaming for more. But boy is that one creepy fly! If nothing else, this book will teach the kiddies the dangers of fly knoshing. Oog.

Rating:
Summary: Perhaps perhaps perhaps
Review: Who knew the text of "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" belonged to the Hoosier Folklore Society? Not I said the .... you know. This is the classic song in which, "the solution proves worse than the predicament". In other words, the cure is worse than the disease. Here we have the supposed old lady (though I have my doubts considering her strong physique and lovely red hair) who has swallowed a fly. And whatta fly it is! This isn't your usual tiny crawling insect. On every other page we view a whopping magnificently HUGE fly, roughly the size of the old lady's head. Most of the creatures the old lady swallows to catch the previous animal are similarly horrific in some way. If your kids weren't afraid of spiders before this book, they will be now. And whatta hairy red-eyed sharp toothed bony kneed spider it is! This is followed next by the scariest chicken you ever did see (again red-eyed) and then a pupil-less (but nonetheless red-eyed) cat that stares off into space. You get the idea. The text is a little different from the versions of the song I remember from my own innocent youth. Instead of vaguely supposing, "perhaps she'll die" at the end of every line, this book comes to the absolute conclusion that "I guess she'll die". Seems logical. And sure enough the last page displays a blank tombstone with a single blue bottle containing three woebegotten red flowers sitting on the grass. Read this book well (or sing it) and the kids'll come screaming for more. But boy is that one creepy fly! If nothing else, this book will teach the kiddies the dangers of fly knoshing. Oog.