A frog's-eye view of life in a tiny pond follows a little green frog from springtime, through the warmth of summer, to fall and the coming of winter, as the little frog burrows deep into the mud at the bottom of the pond to wait for spring to come again.

A frog's-eye view of life in a tiny pond follows a little green frog from springtime, through the warmth of summer, to fall and the coming of winter, as the little frog burrows deep into the mud at the bottom of the pond to wait for spring to come again.
Denise Fleming has written and illustrated many children’s books, including In the Tall, Tall Grass, Shout! Shout It Out!, and Sleepy, Oh So Sleepy. She won a Caldecott Honor for In the Small, Small Pond. Denise published her first painting in the third grade, when she started taking classes at the Toledo Museum of Art and one of her paintings was chosen to be the cover of a teacher’s magazine. She now works primarily with paper, by pouring colored paper pulp through hand-cut stencils. She lives in Toledo, Ohio.