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In the Small, Small Pond

Author: Denise Fleming

Title: - In the Small, Small Pond

Illustrator: Denise Fleming

Publisher: - Henry Holt and Co

Year: - 1993

Format: - Hard Cover

Genre: - Caldecott Book

Reading Level: - First or Second Grade

Interest Level: - Assisted Reading

Topics: Adjectives, Frogs, Pictures, Ponds

Summary: This is a very descriptive book.  It really helps children connect adjectives to their meanings. The book is about a little boy who tries to catch a frog.  He misses and then the frog goes around the pond and finds everything that is happening in the pond. He sees tons of animals such as birds, fish, bugs, geese, crayfish, raccoons, beavers, tadpoles, and turtles.  This is a frogs-eye look at all the exciting things going on in this small, small pond.


Extension Activities: The kids can make a paper plate frog.  Fold a paper plate in half.  Then paint the outside green and the inside black.  Cut a red tongue from construction paper.  Draw feet and legs on the green construction paper and cut them out.  Glue on large googley eyes on the frog. Glue the legs and feet to the bottom of the folded paper plate.  Glue the tongue to the inside. The children will have a frog that they can also use as a puppet.