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There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea
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Skinny ol' Coyote delights readers as he swallows his way though this delicious southwestern-flavored retelling of a beloved rhyme. As Coyote gets bigger, the story becomes zanier. Full color.
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This book is one of my favorites to read to my nieces. They LOVE it. The illustrations are gorgeous and the rhyming tale is funny. A great remake of There Was an Old Lady.
Someone needs to talk to this coyote about proper nutrition.
There was a Coyote who swallowed a flea, is a story about a coyote who begins his journey of eating things. He starts small and only eats things that grow bigger and bigger. The gibber things he heats, the bigger coyote gets, and he doesn't just stop at eating a bird!
When I first saw the book I had an instant connection with it, maybe because its based in the desert with cacti, and coyotes, like Arizona, or maybe it was the name of the book itself that drew me in. The text is a fun rhyming and ...more
When I first saw the book I had an instant connection with it, maybe because its based in the desert with cacti, and coyotes, like Arizona, or maybe it was the name of the book itself that drew me in. The text is a fun rhyming and ...more
I loved the illustrations in this book, but this is a substandard take-off on "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly." Alison Jackson's "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie" puts this book to shame.
Jennifer Ward's western based story gives a new twist to the "There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly". The hungry coyote eats anything and everything, from fleas to cacti to the moon. While eating everything in his wake, the coyote fails to get full and continues to eat objects that grow in size. The coyote never seems to get full and eats each item for a particular reason. I found it very amusing that the coyote eats more than just live organisms, but he also eats inanimate objects, such as
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This book was recommended to me by a friend when I asked for children's book recommendations. It is a new version, retelling of that classic story 'The Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly'. I decided to get this one because I was never fond of the idea of an old woman eating a bunch of things, a coyote cartoonishly makes more sense and is less disturbing to think about. I also like the southern theme for this book being that my family lives in the south.
When I read this book to my little one (2 month ...more
When I read this book to my little one (2 month ...more
There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea is a catchy rhyming book about a very hungry coyote. The coyote slowly ate all the animals starting with a lizard, then a snake, and finally a flea. From here, the coyote moved on to bigger and better things such as a cactus and lastly the moon! Nevertheless, to make matters more absurd, he asked a silly phrase after completing his large meal: “when is breakfast?” Kids will get a hoot out of this funny book and with enough repetition, they can learn to
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Grade Level: K-1
Genre: Children's Fiction/Poetry
Review: This book is a fun read aloud for primary students to learn about writing. In addition, the text is simple enough for students to read it on their own. It is full of funny illustrations, rhyming, onomatopoeias, and more! A great activity to go along with this book is to have children add their stanza about the coyote swallowing the flea, complete with their own rhymes!
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Much in the style of "There was an Only Lady who Swallowed a Fly", ...more
Genre: Children's Fiction/Poetry
Review: This book is a fun read aloud for primary students to learn about writing. In addition, the text is simple enough for students to read it on their own. It is full of funny illustrations, rhyming, onomatopoeias, and more! A great activity to go along with this book is to have children add their stanza about the coyote swallowing the flea, complete with their own rhymes!
Plot:
Much in the style of "There was an Only Lady who Swallowed a Fly", ...more
This book was bought from my mother in law for my daughter. The old lady swallowed books are funny but this book took it to a whole new level of funny!!!!! My 6 year old daughter has already memorized this book. So cute!
Kids will love There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea by Jennifer Ward for the same reasons they love the familiar song, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly! This enchanting tale will tickle everyone’s funnybone! The long list of “edibles” will keep kids laughing and they will enjoy trying to guess what he will eat next. Yippee-O-Ki-Yeee y’all! For ages 3 – 7.
First grade students love to have this book read to them. They love to participate in the refrain.
Good sense of repetition so the students can read along.
Good sense of repetition so the students can read along.
A fun Southwestern take on a children's classic song/poem. The illustrations alone are worth the read.
This is a sing song book about a very hungry Coyote. This book is a western twist on “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” A fun book for all kids!
cute
This is so super cute!!!
it went on too long and so so.e of the things just didn't work...even for a "swallowed a...." book they didn't really work.
If you love There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed books, then you will laugh your head off at what a Coyote will swallow.
Fun variation of a beloved children's book. This has a desert southwest theme.
Jan 06, 2018
Susan ...so many books and so little time
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My students and I loved this book!!!...so I ordered more books by this author!!!
This book was extremely silly. I thought that this could be a great book to teach about sequences and predictions. I think that the kids would laugh at the book just like I did. The artistic style fits very nicely with the location of where the story takes place.
Genre: Modern Fantasy
Grades: PreK - 2
Genre: Modern Fantasy
Grades: PreK - 2
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The illustrations. The illustrations. TheSE illustrations are phenomenal! Wow. The art in this book is what makes it 5 stars. The writing is a standard spin of the old lady, but not necessarily a phenomenal one. Nevertheless, our entire family LOVES both reading and looking at the illustrations in this book. It is one we would like to be a part of our personal library.
This book started out has a fun Southwestern take on The Woman Who Swallowed a Fly, but as the story continued it lost its cleverness and ended poorly. The art work saved this book.
There was a coyote who swallowed a flea is a great book and one of my all time favorites. The writing is fun to hear and fun to read as well. The way that the words just flow out of your mouth while your reading is amazing. The pictures are funny and correspond to the writing very well. It's fun looking at the pictures and finding everything that the coyote was eating in his stomach and seeing what they were doing. Children love this book and it raises a lot of questions as to why the coyote was
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The illustrations in this book are amazing. From the big eyed hungry coyote with his ribs showing to all of the items that coyote eats. This book is filled with desert images. The text is a wonderful south west variation of the rhyme "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly." The text is bouncy and rhyming and makes for a great read-aloud, especially with the repeated chorus of "Yippe-O-Ki-Yee!" We had read another variation, "I Know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Pie" last week, and so it was fun
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This can be sung to the same tune as "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly". (You can hear the tune here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiESi... )
If you're sharing this with a group be sure to include them each time the refrain says "Yippee-o-ki-yee!" and it's fun to pump an arm while saying it.
There are picture clues indicating what might be swallowed on the next page. Stop and tap the clue with your finger and ask questions like, "are you thinking what I'm thinking?" or "I have a bad ...more
If you're sharing this with a group be sure to include them each time the refrain says "Yippee-o-ki-yee!" and it's fun to pump an arm while saying it.
There are picture clues indicating what might be swallowed on the next page. Stop and tap the clue with your finger and ask questions like, "are you thinking what I'm thinking?" or "I have a bad ...more
I got this book at the Youngstown Public Library. I loved the cover and how colorful it was and the detail it showed. I have never heard of the book before so i was really excited to read it. After reading it I really liked it a lot. I loved how it was so colorful and showed a lot of detail. I love how it rhymed and it was entertaining as well. I feel like I will defiantly will have this book in my class, it makes me want to buy it for my own classroom !
This book has rhythm to it and is a lot of fun. It is pretty long and has a lot of words but it is very exciting and funny. It takes you on an adventure with a coyote who keeps eating more and more items to take care of the following item in his stomach and it all started with a pesky flea he plucked from his knee.
The pages are beautifully illustrated, and the content is so much easier to digest than the little old lady with a morbid consequence to eating a fly.
Everytime I read "there was a coyote..." My Daughter would interject and point to the Coyote and call him "Mr Dog" and then giggle. She's so silly.
Everytime I read "there was a coyote..." My Daughter would interject and point to the Coyote and call him "Mr Dog" and then giggle. She's so silly.
There was a coyote who swallowed a flea, Plucked from his knee, that tickly flea. Yippee-o-Ki-Yee!
In the vein of "There was an old Lady who swallowed..."
The pictures are just delightful - the kids loved joining in and repeating the menu and the Yippee-o-Ki-Yee! made for a fun read aloud/along.
In the vein of "There was an old Lady who swallowed..."
The pictures are just delightful - the kids loved joining in and repeating the menu and the Yippee-o-Ki-Yee! made for a fun read aloud/along.
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