I Saw Anaconda

LoveReading4Kids Says

Jane Clarke and Emma Dodd have enormous fun reinventing the story of the old woman who swallowed a flea, transposing the setting to the Amazon jungle and replacing the old woman with an anaconda! The list of creatures swallowed is much more exotic and interesting too: a tick, a skink, a frog, a piranha (its toothy grin did not alarm her!), and finally the narrator.

A series of increasingly elaborate flaps and pop ups enable readers to watch the progress of the animals inside the snake until in a final splendid scene the anaconda is sick and they are freed! The text is a joy, the illustrations too, and lift-the-flap doesn’t get any better than this. ~ Andrea Reece

The Editor at Nosy Crow says: “Have you ever wondered just how many animals one snake could swallow? This may not be the most scientifically accurate account, but it’s a hilarious imagining of a pretty wild scenario. And as it gets more and more squished inside the anaconda, there’s only one way things are going to end… With loads of icky, boysy humour, you’re sure to go ‘bleugh’. Giggles guaranteed.”

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About I Saw Anaconda

This romping, rhyming novelty book is full of odd animals and yucky flap reveals. One little boy watches as ALL SORTS of animals are swallowed up by a very hungry anaconda. But if that anaconda swallows a boy, an alligator, a stork, a piranha, a frog, a skink AND a tick, the question is ...will she be sick? (Spoiler alert - yes!)

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