Back to the Books: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books by Lucille Colandro

It's about that time when school-aged kids get that empty feeling inside. School is going to start soon, and there are sure to be stacks of thick, new textbooks there, all filled with stuff they don't know. It seems overwhelming.

But there is someone who knows how to get on top of everything to do with the beginning of school.

THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED SOME BOOKS.

I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE SWALLOWED THOSE BOOKS.

But books aren't all! There's that little business of school supplies. To write in all those books, the Old Lady swallows a pen, when she ingests a ruler and a folder to hold it in.

THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED SOME CHALK.
SHE DIDN'T BALK.

There's a lot to take in about this back to school business, but this Old Lady has had a lot of practice.

THAT OLD LADY DIDN'T FUSS
WHEN AROUND THE CORNER CAME A SCHOOL BUS.

But true to form, all this ingestion never brings indigestion, in Lucille Colandro's There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books! (Scholastic Books). Lucille Colandro and her trusty illustrator partner Jared Lee come up with a handy list of school supplies tossed in the mix in this parody of the famous folk song "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly." Colandro's oh-so-silly spoof of school-supply shopping is bound to make kids snicker as they wait nervously for the day their school bus comes for them.