Denise Fleming's book gives young readers a frog's-eye view of life in a pond throughout the seasons.


In the Small, Small Pond is a 1994 Caldecott Honor Book.

Denise Fleming's book gives young readers a frog's-eye view of life in a pond throughout the seasons.


In the Small, Small Pond is a 1994 Caldecott Honor Book.
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.