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The Lady with the Alligator Purse Review
User Submitted The Lady with the Alligator Purse ReviewsNovember 11, 2008 good story but too short This is a cute story with great characters and drawings but it's way too short of a story. I would not have bought it if I had realized that it's only a couple of pages long. September 9, 2008 The Lady with the Alligator Purse ISBN 0316930741 - The Lady with the Alligator Purse (the book, not the actual lady) seems to suffer from a split personality, in my opinion. Board books are generally made for the 0-3 age group, children who chew on books and bend or tear the pages. The Lady, and the rest of this set, to be accurate, is really for an older group, maybe 3-5. Hand clapping/slapping games are a bit advanced for the tiniest kids and since this rhyme is based on one of those games, it seems to indicate the book isn't for those tiniest kids. Miss Lucy had a baby... who would've eaten the bathtub if it fit down his throat. Fortunately, it didn't but Miss Lucy still put out the call to the doctor, who called the nurse, who called the lady with the alligator purse. Stop me if you've heard this before. All right, so you've probably heard it before, and a recap is probably not needed. Westcott's adaptation is fun - and cleaner than the rhyme we used when we were kids - and her illustrations are nice and the lack of the usual vibrant, colorful images that fill most books for the 0-3 age group might be another indicator that the book is aimed at slightly older little readers. Fun, and fun is good, but it's fun that's not even original, so I can't do better than 3 stars for it. - AnnaLovesBooks August 24, 2008 The Lady With The Alligator Purse This is a great book! This ryhming book is fun. It is easy to remember the words. Encourages speach and memory. FUN, FUN, FUN! May 22, 2008 Love this book! This is the second copy of this book I've purchased for my kids. The first one was read so much it finally fell apart! It's one of our all-time favorites. April 22, 2008 Tiny Tim to Big Tim? If it were only up to me, I'd give this book 3 stars. My 14 month old daughter loves this book though, so it gets an extra star for that. I like that this is a fun little song, though a slightly different version than I used to sing on the playground in the '70s. I also like that the cat and dog are on all of the pages (except one) so you can play the "where's the ___?" game. The thing that really bothers me about this book is that the illustrations seem very disjointed. I can get over rugs, slippers, pictures on the wall, etc., moving around from page to page, but it seems really odd that Tiny Tim transforms from a baby in the earlier pages of the book to a "big boy" with hair on the last 3 pages of the book. Then there is the weird page in between the baby and big boy pictures where the pillows on the bed and Tiny Tim are gone and the bedroom window is suddenly behind the bed. Tiny Tim is also in "big boy" form on the front cover along with the little girl, both of them with red hair instead of blond hair. My 14-month-old is too young to notice or care how disjointed the illustrations are, but it annoys me every time I read this book. January 10, 2007 If you love to sing... You will love this book! I love singing this to my two daughters. I sing the first part and then they both chime in with ..."alligator purse". We have a ball! October 14, 2006 An Educator's Opinion Having taught children of all ages for over thirty years I knew this was a favorite among children and bought it for my granddaughter when she was two. She is now almost eight and we still love to do this rhyme together. The rhyme makes it easy for children to learn and a favorite memory is of her when she couldn't say her L's clapping her hands reciting Miss "Woocy" had a baby ....... I heartily recommend this book. February 28, 2006 Sing Song Winner I remember this song when I jumped rope, and now it has a new meaning for me. This book is one of my daughters' favorite books. The sing-song format and pictures help them remember the words, and they like to 'read' it to each other and anyone who will listen. They think it is silly and fun, but I think it is empowering because they can do it themselves and pure magic! November 17, 2005 'The Lady with the Alligator Purse' is fun for children to listen to, memorize, and then recite "Nadine Bernard Westcott's irresistable adaptation of the favorite nonsense rhyme is now available in a format perfect for little hands," is the starburst quotation on the back cover of the 1998 version of this board book. In general, the quote is slightly superlative, but 'The Lady with the Alligator Purse' is a cute and safe story. Although neither the text nor the illustrations are terribly imaginative, 'The Lady with the Alligator Purse' is fun for children to listen to, memorize, and then recite (or sing) as they read about Miss Lucy, her ravenous baby Tiny Tim, the doctor, the nurse, and the lady with the alligator purse. The story literally is the rhyme that little girls recite on the playground during recess as they skip rope, and the pen and watercolor illustrations are nice, but somewhat primitive and rudimentary. Neither of those facts are necessarily bad given the target audience, but there is not really anything unusually special about this story or about this book. November 9, 2004 Homeopathic Pizza An unwed mother risks her baby's life by placing him in the bathtub and to see if he can swim. She then stands by while he drinks all of the water in the tub and eats the soap, stopping him only when he attempts to eat the bathtub itself (an effort which, fortunately for all concerned, fails). She then defies all conventional medical advice and treats him with ... pizza. Admittedly, this is more attractive than either penicillin or castor oil, but still borders on parental negligence. Fortunately, this all goes above the head of the average toddler, who will enjoy the rhyming and the goofy pictures. And the pizza! Recommended. For more The Lady with the Alligator Purse reviews click here.
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