Denise K. Fleming (January 31, 1950) is an American creator of children's

picture books A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The images ...

. She was born in

Toledo, Ohio Toledo ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. A major Midwestern United States port city, Toledo is the fourth-most populous city in the state of Ohio, after Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, and according ...

. She graduated in illustration (after a change from advertising design) from

Kendall College of Art and Design Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University (KCAD) is a college of art and design located in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1928 as a private art academy, the college merged with Ferris State University in 2000. Off ...

in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her first book, ''In the Tall, Tall Grass'', was published by

Henry Holt and Company Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in New York City. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt. Currently, the company publishes in the fields ...

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." It was critically well received and its sequel, ''In the Small, Small Pond'' (Holt, 1993), was a runner-up for the 1994

Caldecott Medal The Randolph Caldecott Medal, frequently shortened to just the Caldecott, annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It is awarded to the illustrator by the Association for Library Service ...

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

5 Little Ducks ''5 Little Ducks'' is a 2016 children's picture book by Caldecott Honor recipient Denise Fleming based on the nursery rhyme of the same name. Plot Over the course of a week, the ducks go off on a daily adventure with one less returning home eac ...

''.

Awards and honors

''underGROUND'' is a

Junior Library Guild Junior Library Guild, formerly the Junior Literary Guild, is a commercial book club devoted to juvenile literature. It was created in 1929 as one of the enterprises of the Literary Guild, an adult book club created in 1927 by Samuel W. Craig and H ...

book.

Publications

* ''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!'' (2013) * ''Maggie and Michael Get Dressed'' (2016) * ''

'' (2016) * ''This Is the Nest That Robin Built'' (2018)

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External links

*
Fleming at Kidsread

Fleming at Scholastic
* 1950 births Living people American children's writers American children's book illustrators American women illustrators Writers from Toledo, Ohio Ferris State University alumni American women children's writers 21st-century American women {{US-child-writer-stub

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