Denise Fleming

Denise K. Fleming (January 31, 1950) is an American creator of children's picture books. She was born in Toledo, Ohio. She graduated in illustration (after a change from advertising design) from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan.^[1]

Her first book, In the Tall, Tall Grass, was published by Henry Holt and Company in 1991. According to one library summary, "Rhymed text (crunch, munch, caterpillars lunch) presents a toddler's view of creatures found in the grass from lunchtime till nightfall, such as bees, ants, and moles."^[2] It was critically well received^[3] and its sequel, In the Small, Small Pond (Holt, 1993), was a runner-up for the 1994 Caldecott Medal.^[4]

Twenty years later, In the Small, Small Pond was runner-up for the inaugural, 2013 Phoenix Picture Book Award. The Phoenix Awards recognize the best children's books published twenty years earlier that did not win major contemporary awards.^[5]

Her other books include The Cow Who Clucked, The First Day of Winter, Underground, and 5 Little Ducks.

Selected works[]

• In the Tall, Tall Grass (1991)
• Count! (1992)
• Lunch (1992)
• In the Small, Small Pond (1993)
• Barnyard Banter (1994)
• Where Once There Was a Wood (1996)
• Time to Sleep (1997)
• Mama Cat Has Three Kittens (1998)
• The Everything Book (2000)
• Pumpkin Eye (2001)
• Alphabet Under Construction (2002)
• Buster (2003)
• The First Day of Winter (2005)
• The Cow Who Clucked (2006)
• Beetle Bop (2007)
• Buster Goes to Cowboy Camp (2008)
• Sleepy, Oh So Sleepy (2010)
• SHOUT! Shout it out! (2011)
• underGROUND (2012)
• Go, Shapes, Go! (2014)
• Maggie and Michael Get Dressed (2016)
• 5 Little Ducks (2016)
• This Is the Nest That Robin Built (2018)

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References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Fleming at Kidsread
• Fleming at Scholastic
• Denise Fleming at Library of Congress Authorities, with 32 catalog records

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