by Michael Rosen
The cover first caught my eye of this new favorite title. I love the image of the tiger staring at the fly with one eye closed. (I'm partial to one eyed cats, since I own one.) The story kept my attention with simple rhyming text and artistic illistrations. While the story is enjoyable, the pictures are the real star here. Each brush stroke comes to life and readers will want to soak in all the details.
After seeing this story, I started thinking about if there were other stories about flies. What I found has inspired me to create a storytime all about flies! A good title for the sotrytime might be Shoo Fly! or Time FLIES...we'll see what sticks.
Some of the other titles I might use are:
Diary of a fly by Doreen Cronin
The jazz fly by Matthew Gollub
Old black fly by jim Aylesworth
Thelonius Monster's sky-high fly pie by Judy Sierra
and of course, There was an old women who swallowed a Fly!
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