I loved the sing-songy nature of the rhymes in this book, and remember reading it as a kid. In the story, the author begins with an old lady who swallowed a fly, “I don’t know why she swallowed the fly, poor old lady, I guess she’ll die.” And goes on to continue and name bigger animals that the old lady swallows, “I know an old lady who swallowed a spider it wrinkled and ickled and tickled inside her.” The silly words that the author invents help to keep the attention of the reader, and kept me interested in the next animal that the old lady was going to swallow.
The old lady keeps swallowing small things and they get bigger, “I know an old lady who swallowed a cat. She swallowed a cat? Imagine that!” She then continues, “I know an old lady who swallowed a horse poor old lady! She died, of course. I liked the repetition that she uses, “I guess she’ll die” until they get to the biggest animal mentioned horse-last page shows a grave when it says that she dies. I also liked how he words got bigger as the things that she swallowed go larger as well.
I thought this was a silly story that’s fun of kids and they can see what’s small animal compared to a big one. ( )

I think that the message in this story was to show how event happen in sequence. I had mixed feelings about this books because I liked the rhyming and how it was a silly story but I did not like the pictures in the story. There could appear spooky to a child and make the book not as fun as it should be. ( )

NP,GRL H,GL 1.7,4 copies

NP,GRL H,GL 1.7,4 copies

NP,GRL H,GL 1.7,4 copies