![]() And while the illustrations are perhaps a bit vague and washed-out in appearance (although they do become increasingly clear at a distance) they nevertheless gracefully and flawlessly mirror the general colour schemes of a pond community and the different modes of animal movement, of the direct and straightforwardly poetic lyrics, providing an evocatively bright and lively visually pleasing accompaniment (and furthermore, for children who enjoy searching for hidden images, there is also a vividly depicted green frog located on each illustrated spread of In the Small, Small Pond, mostly very easy to locate, although the image of the frog in the whirligig illustration did take a bit of time for me to discern). ![]() ![]() Unembellished, but massively verbally engaging, the onomatopoeic pond sounds of Denise Fleming's simple but lyrical verses are not only delightfully entertaining (and thus a joy to pronounce out loud by both children and likely even adults reading In the Small, Small Pond with and to children), they also descriptively and colourfully depict and present basic pond life and diverse animal behaviours (all the while improving vocabulary and in particular promoting more descriptive verb choices). ![]()
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