In The Small, Small Pond [Paperback]

Award-winning author/illustrator Denise Fleming gives young readers a frogs eye view of life in a pond throughout the seasons in the Caldecott Honor Book,In the Small, Small Pond.

A child explores the wonders of the natural world in this rhyming, beautiful bright colored picture storybook about the lives of small animals and insects living around a freshwater pond.

The animals and insects that live on and in frshwater pond wiggle, waddle, hover, swoop and swirl through the stunning spreads... Young children are introduced to the basic habits of common North American wildlife and the characteristics of changing seasons even as they are treated to an array of zipper verbs. Publisher's Weekly, starred review

Another truly stunning picture book from Fleming.... A perfect book for toddlers at story time. School Library Journal, starred review

[A] perfect introduction to nature for the very young. Kirkus Reviews

Denise Fleminghas written and illustrated many children's books, includingIn the Tall, Tall Grass,Shout! Shout It Out!, andSleepy, Oh So Sleepy. She won a Caldecott Honor forIn the Small, Small Pond. Denise published her first painting in the third grade, when she started taking classes at the Toledo Museum of Art and one of her paintings was chosen to be the cover of a teacher's magazine. She now works primarily with paper, by pouring colored paper pulp through hand-cut stencils. She lives in Toledo, Ohio.

In the Small, Small Pondis a 1994 Caldecott Honor Book.