Really liked this sprightly revisioning of the nursery rhyme. My toddler does too, requesting it a lot. ( )

This book was a very funny and interesting twist to the classic children's song, "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly." The book is about an old lady who wanted to catch a star. In order to catch the star she had to do a lot of things such as buying shoes, to get skates, skates to get a bike, and the list goes on until she exchanges her car for a plane. Once the bold old lady gets a plane she is able to fly into outer space and get a star. After getting the star she must do all of those tasks again until she is back with just her shoes and the star. At the end of the story it shows the old lady putting the star in a jar and giving it to a little boy. This book is full of rhymes and repetition and I would suspect it is very entertaining for children to read and wonder what the old lady is going to do next to complete her goal of catching a star. I thought it was a creative take on the old classic, "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly." ( )

I could care less about the illustrations but the rhyme is a funny spoof on "There Was and Old Lady" and my son was highly amused, as he read it to me. And the summarization at the end is a neat touch. ( )

Really liked this sprightly revisioning of the nursery rhyme. My toddler does too, requesting it a lot. ( )

A new twist on an old classic...and it's over done. Not really interesting. ( )