This book is a fantasy because the events that take place are make believe and could not happen in real life. The story line follows the old poem, "There was an old lady who swallowed a spider", except with different objects that grow in size and sillyness. The Media used in this book is ink and paint. ( )

The story is about an old lady who swallowed several different things. She swallowed each thing, so that it would in turn swallow the thing she had swallowed before. She started with swallowing a bat and next an owl and a cat and so on and so forth. She finally swallows awizard to cast a spell and yells Trick or Treat.

I liked the book since after a few pages you see a pattern. You know she would swallow something else. For children this would be something they could guess before you even read the page.

The students could make puppets with brown paper bags in the form of a bat, owl, cat gobblin. ( )

this book puts a new spin on the old story "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly" and is set on the theme Halloween. This old lady swallows a bat, owl, cat, ghost, goblin, bones, and wizard: all to say trick or treat.

This book to me is more in touch with todays children who expect the more bizzar.

You could have the children come up with other things the old lady could have have swallowed, and draw this things in a bubble that's the old womans stomach. ( )