Ever-expanding die-cut holes show exactly what is happening in the old lady's stomach as she swallows an assortment of creatures, beginning with a small fly, and ending with a fatal horse.
Illustrations and rhyming text invite the reader to move like a variety of aquatic animals, from slithering like an eel and waddling like a penguin to running like a hungry alligator.
Mother hen, mother pig, and five other animal mothers find their babies and reveal their names such as chick, piglet, kitten, on the flaps throughout this book.