There Was an Old Sailor cover

There Was an Old Sailor

Author: Saxby, Claire

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level 3.4
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 421
Points per Word 0.001188
Page Count 28
Points per Page 0.017857

Description

In a new take on the song "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," a white-bearded, big-bellied sailor sets things in motion by swallowing a krill. He then goes on to swallow progressively larger sea creatures, each meant to catch the preceding one.