This is a twist on the familiar book, THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY. Children know the sequence of events until the old lady swallows something impossible (in this story, the entire ocean) and they delight when it all comes back out. This is a great book for teaching sequence and fantasy. I wrote a free teacher PDF, a 38 page printable with activities for school or home. FREE ( )

This book is about an old lady who swallows a trout and swallows so much to catch the trout that she swallows the whole ocean.

It was about a women who swallowed a trout. As the book progressed she continued to swallow other animals like an outer and a salmon. She then swallows a whale and then a boat. In the end she spits them up and they swim out of her.

This book tells a story about an old women who swallows animals that live in the ocean. ( )

There was an old lady that swallowed trout. She swallowed a salmon to catch the trout. She then swallowed an otter to catch the salmon. The list goes on and on until she eventually swallowed the whole ocean. She opened her mouth and let everything out. ( )

Genre- Fantasy because its talking about a lady swallowing things which is very unrealistic
review- I think the book is very catchy and can be a fun read aloud. But I don't really like how repetitive it is. It gets boring as you read it.
Uses- I could put this book in my classroom library and allow kids to read it and look at the wonderful illustrations. ( )

This was a book about a lady who first started off by swallowing a trout and it all went down hill from then on. Each time the lady swallowed something, she would swallow another thing to go after it. It got to the point where she swallowed the whole ocean. She began to giggle and laugh and then it all came out. I think this would be an interesting book to read to my students just to give them a break from going homework or coming back from a long weekend. ( )

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout is a fantasy picture book tells a story about an old lady who swallowed all kinds of animals in the marine. It is a good for children who need to study marine lives. But as for me, I don’t feel it is a common fairy tale for children, which is a little bit scary. The illustrations in this book are water-colored and remind me of folktale, which are also full of imagination. ( )

I really liked the artwork and how the book focuses on the Pacific Northwest and animals that children could be familiar with. I also like that the book follows a well known children's song/poem so students would be slightly familiar with the pattern. I think this book would be fun to include in a unit on the PNW. I like the setting because of the way the illustrations show it and it is colorful and interesting, the plot line is not the most exciting however.

This is a charming, colorful variation of the poem about the old lady who swallowed a fly! I really enjoyed the use of water/ocean animals and the action words that described the process. Fun illustrations, too! Cute book!! ( )

Slightly disturbing. This is the story of an old lady who continues to eat live animals to show the food chain. Yes, live animals. While I think it’s helpful to show that the food chain starts small then gets big, I don’t think I’d read this one to children. At least families with fish as pets shouldn’t read this to their children. You may come home to find your fish gone.  But, I did appreciate the author spinning the old tale of the old lady who swallowed a fly. At least the pictures were colorful and interesting.

Details: This book was written to interest children in grades K-3 and is on a 1.8 reading leel. ( )

A imaginary tale in the form of a repetitive poem. Charming illustrations with a 'sea' theme.

A story about a woman that swallowed lots of different items to get rid of the previous one.
Media:oils ( )

Genre: This is a good example of Fantasy Fiction because the old lady swallows bigger and bigger sea creatures until she swallow the whole ocean.

Style: This book uses consonance, which gives rhythm and flow as each verse ends with "splished and splashed and thrashed about."

Media: paint

This book is a wonderful example of both poetry and modern fantasy. The author puts her own spin on Simms Taback's classic story "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly." Instead of a fly, spider, bird, etc. this author uses ocean animals from the Pacific Northwest. The impossible adventure of a woman swallowing such creatures engages readers and opens their minds to a fantastic world under the sea. This story also uses a lot of repetition and rhyme to tell this tale, making it a wonderful poem for children to read aloud. As many poems do, this poem makes the reader laugh and wonder at the old lady's antics.

This traditional fantasy cumulative tale is about an old woman who first swallows a trout and tries to get it out by swallowing something to eat the trout. Every time the old lady swallows a new sea creature, she discovers she needs to swallow something else in an attempt to get rid of it. This story is a different spin from the original old lady book, but still delights children’s imaginations by hearing about an old lady who swallows all sorts of peculiar things.

I grew up reading the book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly! When I saw this book at the local library, I checked it out and enjoyed reading about the different types of sea creatures she swallows. I read this book to my children and they thought it was weird but silly.

A classroom extension idea for this book would be to incorporate it as a demonstration of a food web. This book is an excellent example of an aquatic food web with the whale, walrus, porpoise, seal, otter, salmon and trout all being swallowed in succession by the little old lady to get them out. The students could then pick three of the sea creatures and create a simpler food web to discuss and then research what the producer would be for that particular food chain. ( )

A bright, energetic retelling of a beloved children's rhyme, with a Pacific Northwest twist.

"There was an old lady who swallowed a trout
That splished and splashed and thrashed about."

Everyone has heard about the old lady who swallowed a fly, but there is something particularly fishy about this old lady . . .

Beautiful illustrations in this story capture the scenery and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. The buoyant text jumps along as the old lady swallows a salmon, an otter, a seal, a walrus, and more, until eventually she swallows the entire sea and the trout swims free! With a unique and fascinating setting, this pure flight of fancy gives a fresh look to a familiar poem.