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Ward, Jennifer

There Was an Old Monkey Who Swallowed a Frog

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Steve Gray. Set in a rainforest, this revision of the familiar folk song features a monkey who swallows a succession of animals with the refrain: "I don't know why he swallowed the frog. What a hog!" The nonsense generally works, despite more than a few compromises. Exaggerated computer-generated cartoons mirror the overblown text.

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