I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
By (Author) Alan Mills
Illustrated by PisHier
Secret Mountain
Secret Mountain
1st October 2024
1st July 2024
Canada
Children
Fiction
Picture storybooks: imagination and play
Early years: verse, rhymes and wordplay
782.421622
Hardback
48
Width 250mm, Height 250mm
Get to know a quirky old lady who swallows a heap of animals from a dog, cat, bird and spider to that infamous little fly. The children's classic sets the table for several timeless folk tunes, written over 50 years ago. Tongue-in-cheek and smart at heart, this buffet of singalong alphabet, counting and rhyming songs is jaw-droppingly silly as it is devourable.
Alan Mills was a folksinger, writer, and actor who released several albums on Folkways Records. His performance at the 1960 Newport Folk Festival was preserved on a Vanguard recording. He also found lasting success as a singer with the CBC radio show Folk Songs for Young Folk, which ran from 1947-59. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1974
Artist, illustrator and author Pierre Girard (known professionally as PisHier) has been combining various art genres, such as comic strips, numerical pictures, painting, illustration and graphic design, over the past 20 years. He is one of the founding members of the popular Quebec City publication Fanzine Bidon and has illustrated a dozen children's books.