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Highlights
- 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.
- Caldecott Medal 1994 3rd Winner, Black-Eyed Susan Award (Picture Book) 1994 4th Winner
- 4-5 Years
- 10.24" x 10.32" Hardcover
- 32 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Science & Nature
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About the Book
It's springtime and a bright green frog leaps out of the tall, tall grass and lands in a small, small pond. Splash! Tadpoles and minnows scatter. Denise Fleming's vibrant art and rhyming text make this frog's eye view of life in a small, small pond irresistible. Full color. 1994 Caldecott Honor Book.Book Synopsis
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.Review Quotes
"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 ReviewsAbout 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.