For this retelling of a favorite British folktale, I stress the fairy's traveling rhyme and the old woman's complaining, "Oh what a pity! What a pity, pity PITY!" Children will love to chant it with you.

The Old Woman Who Lived In A Vinegar Bottle

Author:

Illustrator:

Margaret Read MacDonald

Nancy Dunaway Fowlkes

For this retelling of a favorite British folktale, I stress the fairy's traveling rhyme and the old woman's complaining, "Oh what a pity! What a pity, pity PITY!" Children will love to chant it with you.

Editions

Hardcover

1995

August House

0-87483-415-5

Quotes

MacDonald is in fine form, preceding the tale with a learned discussion of variants, then rendering it in a rapid, comic style.

Kirkus Reviews

Fowlke's bold, exuberant watercolor and ink paintings are clear enough for group read-alouds, yet are packed with enticing details for independent readers and on-on-one listeners.

School Library Journal

MacDonald presents a retelling that is so rhythmic and conversational even a first-time storyteller will be successful. Fowlkes' energetic, brightly patterned ink-and-watercolor illustrations are sized right for storytime as will, with the vinegar bottle discreetly showing up in every spread.

Booklist, Oct 1, 1995 Susan Dove Lempke

With brightly colored illustrations and chant-like refrain...will delight children ages 4-7.

Education Today, Feb 1996

Awards

Storytelling World Award

Best Books for Children 7th ed.

Southern Books Competition, Honorable Mention

Elementary School Library Collection, 22nd ed

Bowker Best Books for Children

2002