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Ward, Jennifer

There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea

32 pp. | Rising | November, 2006 | Trade ISBN 0-87358-898-3 $15.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Steve Gray. Forget the old lady and the fly: in this Southwestern-flavored retelling, a coyote swallows all the weird stuff, and the book's droll rhymes ("it tasted like steak, that rattling snake"; "it takes lots of practice to swallow a cactus!") end with the regionally resonant "Yippee-o-ki-yee!" Although the art is cartoon slick, that dimwitted coyote somehow engenders sympathy.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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