Author: Simms Taback
Title: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
Illustrator: Simms Taback
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Year: 1997
Genre: Caldecott
Format: Hardcover
Reading Level: Early
Interest Level: Pre-K, early elementary
Topics: rhyming, poems, & animals
Summary: This book is a favorite American folk poem about an old lady who swallowed a fly. She keeps swallowing different animals because she thinks they will eat the fly, but that is not how it works out. This is a funny book kids will love to read.
Extension Activity: Teacher would put on a puppet show for the kids that goes along with the story. There would be an old lady puppet and puppets of the different animals in the book.
