In the Small, Small Pond

Award-winning author/illustrator Denise Fleming gives young readers a frog's 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.

Author: Denise Fleming
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 10/15/1998
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 9.80h x 9.80w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780805059830
Audience: Baby-Preschool

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 11175 / In the Small, Small Pond


Award: Phoenix Award - Honor Book


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/19/1998

About the Author

Denise Fleming has written and illustrated many children's books, including In the Tall, Tall Grass, Shout! Shout It Out!, and Sleepy, Oh So Sleepy. She won a Caldecott Honor for In 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.