There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover! (There Was An Old Lady)

by Lucille Colandro (Author) Jared Lee (Illustrator)

Reading Level: K − 1st Grade

There was an Old Lady who swallowed things over and over, and now she's come back to swallow a clover!

She's back! That lovely old lady has returned just in time for St. Patrick's Day. Now she's swallowing items to make the perfect rainbow to hide a pot of gold.

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K-Gr 2—In this goofy twist on the classic cumulative rhyme "There was an old lady who swallowed a clover... but she didn't roll over." Indeed, she also gulps down a daisy, a butterfly, a bird, a pot, gold coins, and a fiddle. At the end of this strange feast, she dances with a "wee little leprechaun" and her giggling causes a rainbow to pop out of her mouth. While not an obvious holiday selection, the book ends with a "Happy St. Patrick's Day!" wish. Lee's comically absurd cartoons will have children chuckling, but some of the rhymes are awkward to read aloud ("She swallowed the bird to glide with the butterfly"), and the explanations are often a stretch ("She swallowed the daisy to brighten the clover").—Linda Ludke, London Public Library, Ontario, Canada

Copyright 2012 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
Lucille Colandro
Lucille Colandro has written many books for children, including the bestselling There Was an Old Lady series illustrated by Jared Lee.
Jared Lee has illustrated more than 100 books for young readers. He has received awards from the Society of Illustrators, the Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library Association, the National Cartoonists Society, and others. He lives in Ohio with his wife and a menagerie of dogs, cats, ponies, ducks, and a few unknown creatures.
Classification
-
ISBN-13
9780545352222
Lexile Measure
470
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Cartwheel Books
Publication date
January 01, 2012
Series
There Was an Old Lady
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV017080 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Other, Non-Religious
Library of Congress categories
Stories in rhyme
Folk songs, English
Folk songs
Nonsense verses
Older people
Leprechauns
Clover

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