I Know An Old Teacher (Carolrhoda Picture Books)

I Know an Old Teacher (Carolrhoda Picture Books)

From School Library Journal Grade 2-4-Miss Bindley takes the class pets home for a long weekend and develops an eerie, extraordinary craving. Following the traditional cumulative rhyme, all of them disappear in a round of Fear Factor-inspired eating-a flea, spider, fish, rat, Jake the Snake, and, as students cry in horror, "She's got our Lizzie!"-the class lizard. Miss Bindley, in turn, grows less appealing with the turn of each page. Hair becomes flyaway and frizzy, her cozy robe falls into a frumpy sack, and her face turns-well, a bilious green. Gammell's lively artwork is a colorful combination of watercolor, colored pencils, pastel, and crayon framed by a mix of font sizes and colors. Assisted by conversational responses from Miss Bindley's students, who are spying on her, the tale progresses as tails disappear until the unlikely becomes the outrageous-"I know an old teacher who swallowed a child