In the Small, Small Pond
AuthorDenise Fleming
IllustratorFleming
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's Literature
PublisherHenry Holt and Company, Inc.
Publication date
15 September 1993
Media typeChildren's Picture book (hardcover)
Pages32 pp
ISBN978-0-8050-2264-3

In the Small, Small Pond is a 1994 Caldecott Honor Book[1] written and illustrated by Denise Fleming.[2] It is the sequel to Fleming's In the Tall, Tall Grass (1991). In 2001, the film was adapted into an animated short narrated by Laura Dern and released by Weston Woods Studios, Inc.

Awards and reception

Kirkus praised In the Small, Small Pond for its unique rhyme scheme and artful design, especially its paper and typography “… in bold black, beautifully integrated into art created in the process of making paper from pulp dyed in brilliant colors.” [3] In 2013, the Phoenix Picture Book Award selected In the Small, Small Pond as runner-up to its annual award given to a children's book published twenty years ago that did not receive a major award.[4]

References

  1. ^ "In the Small, Small Pond, 1994 Caldecott Honor Book". www.ala.org. American Library Association. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Book review". publishersweekly.com. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  3. ^ "Book Review". Kirkus. Kirkus Review. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  4. ^ "2013 Phoenix Picture Book Honor Book" (PDF). www.childlitassn.org. Children's Literature Association. Retrieved 14 December 2015.


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