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Format:
Book
Title:
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
ISBN:
9780670869398

9781591124078

9781555928957

9780758701541

9780780432390
Publication:
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.
Contents:
Track 1: narration with page turn signals (10:14) -- Track 2: narration with no page turn signals (10:00) -- Track 3: "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" song (3:14).
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.
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