The house that Jack Built by Jenny Stow takes place in a beautiful Caribbean setting that talks about how everything connects with each other example starts off This is the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built . The house that Jack Built is similar to the book There was an Old Woman who swallowed a fly by Micheal Kohn and Daniel Weiner. This book would be great for 1st graders through 3rd grade.
I would tell them about the word "Cosmology" and how it viewed in the African worldview. I would tell them that everything in the story is interconnected with each other! After reading The House that Jack Built and There was an old woman who swallowed a fly, we would make a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting these two books.

Caribbean setting. ( )