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There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

An illustrated board book that expands on the folk song about the old lady who accidentally swallows a fly and then continues to swallow larger and larger animals in an attempt to get rid of the ones she has already swallowed.
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The Gingerbread Man

2011
A retelling of the children's story in which a freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of pursuers until he meets a clever fox.
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