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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly( 8 customer ratings | )
Author: Taback, Simms
ISBN:978-0-670-86939-8
Publication Date:Oct 1998
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Viking Adult
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $32.99
Book Description:

An old favorite as you've never seen it before!Everyone knows the song about the old lady who swallowed a fly, a spider, a bird, and even worse, but who's ever seen what's going on inside the old lady's stomach? With this inventive die-cut artwork, Simms Tabak gives us a rollicking, eye-popping version of the well-loved poem.

Book Details
Pages:36
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Music / Songbooks
Juvenile Nonfiction / Activity Books / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / Humorous
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):20.8 x 26.1 x 1 cm
Book Weight:0.35 Kilograms
Author Biography
Taback, Simms (Author)
Simms Taback was born on February 13, 1932 in New York City. Before serving two years in the Army, he graduated from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1953. He worked as an art director at CBS Records and The New York Times and as an advertising art director at William Douglas McAdams. He designed and illustrated the first McDonald's Happy Meal box in the 1970s.

During his lifetime, he was the illustrator and occasional author of about 50 children's books including There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, which won the Caldecott Medal in 2000, and Postcards from Camp. He died of pancreatic cancer on December 25, 2011 at the age of 79.

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