"Turtle wants to go see the world. But first he has to say good-bye to all his friends. Each one gets a special message... But it takes him so long that the gates to the zoo are about to close before the adventure even begins!"--Provided by publisher.
Text and pop-up illustrations relate the traditional folk song in which the accidental ingestion of a fly leads an old lady to swallow larger and larger animals, ending with a horse.
