In the Small, Small Pond

Denise Fleming does an amazing job showing what the animals that live in and near the pond do. I think that this book is just amazing. The verbs used with each different animal are very vivid. One of my favorite parts of the book is that there is a frog that is printed on each page, in a different spot. So you could use this book for little kids to find where the frog is at on each page. This book has won a Caldecott Honor, so of course the pictures are just wonderful. The pictures are full-page pictures, with the words floating around in random places on the page. I can’t even describe the pictures; the colors are so bright and rich that the illustrations jump off of the page. My favorite pages of the book are the raccoon pages. The raccoon is sitting on the edge of the water with his paws in the water, adorable!