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Welcome to: A Book or Two: Children's Literature Reviews, a blog site that offers information on new, classic, and favorite children's literature, reviewed by university professors, classroom teachers, librarians, and those studying to become teachers. We hope you will find "just the right book" to share with others. Our goal is to keep the site updated with information about children's authors, book awards, and new releases. Each entry will include the book cover picture, a brief overview, bibliographic information, and suggested uses for families, librarians, and teachers. We will categorize books in several different ways, to facilitate searching.

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11/19/13

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

TITLE: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Simms Taback
PUBLISHER: Viking Juvenile PUBLICATION DATE: 1997
AWARDS: 1998 Caldecott Honor
GENRE: Fiction Picture book READING LEVEL: PreK-1st
BRIEF OVERVIEW: An old lady swallows a fly among other animals and the audience is then shown what goes on in her stomach afterwards
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: The students will recall all of the animals that the old lady swallowed and then attempt to order them by size.
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Shaina Galvin - Valdosta State University
LABELS: fiction, paperback, folk song, humorous
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