Title:
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly / Simms Taback.
ISBN:
9780670869398
9780590647588
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Viking, 1997.
Physical Description:
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
General Note:
On die-cut pages.
Simms Taback (February 13, 1932 - December 25, 2011) was an American writer, graphic artist, and illustrator of more than 35 books. He won the 2000 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, and was a runner-up in 1998 for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. Taback graduated from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and served in the United States Army. He was a designer for CBS Records and The New York Times. He was the founder and president of the Illustrators Guild (later the New York Graphic Artists Guild) and taught art at the School of Visual Arts and Syracuse University. Taback designed the first McDonald's Happy Meal box in 1977. He died in 2011 of pancreatic cancer.
Awards Note:
Caldecott Honor Book, 1998; ALA Notable Children's Book, 1998
Summary:
Presents the traditional version of a famous American folk poem first heard in the U.S. in the 1940's with illustrations on die-cut pages that reveal all that the old lady swallows.
Program Information:
Reading Counts RC K-2 1.9 1 Quiz: 11377 Guided reading level: L.
Accelerated Reader AR LG 2 0.5 173385.
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Added Corporate Author:
Electronic Access:
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1207/96061604-b.htmlPublisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1207/96061604-d.html
Audience:
Decoding demand: 36 (low) Semantic demand: 60 (medium) Syntactic demand: 30 (low) Structure demand: 39 (low) Lexile.
Audience:
320L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocm37595606
Availability:
Farmington~1
