I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

click here for more details, find new or used items	Nadine Bernard Westcott, Mary Ann Hoberman Our price £3.58 (£3.56) New from £1.02 Used from £1.01 Pages: 11 (Board book) Reading Level: Baby-Preschool ISBN: 0316162728 Pub: Megan Tingley Books Pub date: 2003-06-11 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 316189

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One Woman's Bad Diet Becomes A Favorite Song (3/3 people found this helpful)

The great mystery of one woman's dietary adventure has intrigued children for generations. Although she has avoided the stronger points of both the South Beach and the Atkins diets, she did bring in a diverse meal plan with lots of protein with minimal carbs.

The woman described through pictures here is not a pleasant, friendly woman, but one who is terribly overweight, and who apparently eats her pets as well as bugs. Look out Fido! Look out Fluffy!

It is the tale oft-told, and the rhymes will please the young one's ears. It is easy to remember, and so much fun that you may find yourself humming the tune. Like the classic folk story, "Stone Soup," the song builds with each retelling. First, she eats a fly, then a spider, then a bird. You get the idea. While her plan was not to eat any of these things, she does.

While the pictures are fun, it is the song we all love, and the one you and your family can sing on vacations, school busses. It works in rounds, or in groups. The children are sure to giggle through it, since funny vocal inflections beg to be employed.

I fully recommend "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly." But, I must admit, I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Your guess what will happen to her is as good as mine.

Anthony Trendl

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