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* Caldecott Honor 수상작
* New York Times Best Illustrated Book


미국의 전래 동요를 taback Simms가 재미있는 그림책으로 재구성했습니다.

길을 가던 할머니는 입 속으로 들어온 파리 한마리를 그만 꿀꺽 삼켜버리고 말았습니다. 뱃속에 들어간 파리 때문에 어쩌면 죽을지도 모른다고 걱정한 할머니는 파리를 잡기 위해 거미 한마리를 꿀꺽 삼켜버렸죠. 하지만 거미는 뱃속에서 꿈틀꿈틀, 간질간질~. 할머니는 다시 거미를 잡기 위해 새 한마리를 꿀꺽 삼키고, 다시 새를 잡기 위해 고양이를, 고양이를 잡기 위해 개를, 개를 잡기 위해 소를, 소를 잡기 위해 말을 삼켰지요. 그리고는 배가 산더미만큼 불러져서 그만 저 세상으로 떠나고 말았어요. 우리나라 속담중 "호미로 막을 것을 가래로도 못 막게 된다"는 말이 생각나는군요. 파리를 삼키고 나서 그냥 참으면 될 일을 점점 일을 키운 우둔함을 재미있게 보여줍니다.

각 페이지마다 구멍이 뚫려 있어서 뱃속에 들어간 동물들의 모습을 유머러스하게 보여줍니다.






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Edition: Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0670869392
ISBN-13: 9780670869398
책 크기: 26cm x 21cm



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The New York Times
The book is beautifully illustrated and lovingly designed by Simms Taback, and the publisher should be given enormous credit for the careful way it has produced the book and carried through his concept, which is a dandy. Taback has graciously crammed the back cover with a widely varied gallery of flies that is worthy of at least one bedtime session all by itself.


Publishers Weekly
In Taback's (Joseph Had a Little Overcoat) ingenious take on the cumulative tale, there's a die-cut hole where the old lady's stomach should be, so the audience can see where everything she swallows ends up. What's more, the hole grows bigger to accommodate the increasing gastro-populationby the tale's end, it's the size and shape of the horse that causes her demise. The digested wide-eyed animals float in a confetti-dusted space (which matches her dress), while everything about the elderly woman's exterior is equally askew, including the pupils in her eyes. Older children should get a kick out of the amusing asides liberally tucked into every spread. For example, there are bogus front page headlines ("LADY WOLFS DOWN DOG" screams one); a recipe for "Spider's Soup"; editorial comments by the menagerie and Taback himself ("Even the artist is crying," says a small caricature of Taback when she meets her gluttonous end); as well as factual information (various types of flies, birds or dogs are clearly labeled and paired with accurate pictures). The gleefully dizzy mood is intensified by Taback's use of black hand-lettered words set in blocks of bright colors laid atop orange or black backgrounds, and occasionally sprinkled with collage images (whose sources range from old field guides to the Wall Street Journal). Children of all ages will joyfully swallow this book whole. All ages.


Children's Literature
This song is a favorite with children, although, you might wonder why, perhaps it is the rollicking rhythm and the simple absurdity of it all. Taback takes the song to new heights in his interpretation. The die cut artwork lets kids look inside this unusual looking old lady's stomach to see what is going on. There is plenty to grab kids attention both in her stomach and in the asides and other goodies tucked within the page. It's a wild and wacky version that offers lots of colorful visual humor. Caldecott Honor book.


Ingram
Inventive die-cut artwork offers young readers of all ages a rollicking, eye-popping version of the well-loved poem about the old lady who swallowed a fly, a spider, a bird, a cat, a dog, and worse."