In the Small, Small Pond

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Summary: Life in a pond.
Review: Children, including mine, love the movie "The Lion King,"a movie about 'the circle of life' of lions on the Pridelands. Being very popular with children, they emulate, or like to think of themselves as Mufasa, or Nala, or Timone...and that includes my children. Now we have a book,"In the Small, Small, Pond" by Denise Fleming that takes a frog through 'the circle of life'. With simple and easy rhymes, children can explore this water world. My children, 3 and 2 years of age, as Mufasa and Nala, love to go, with Angie and daddy as leaders, down to the waterhole-a real scene in the Lion King movie-to see the frog, birds, fish, and friends. I highly recommend this book for its ability to hold the reader and the audience.

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Summary: Not interesting
Review: I am a mother of three children and have a home daycare. I have read lots of books and I have a large children's book collection. There are lots of other books that I enjoy reading with the children other than this one. I feel the art work is ok, but abstract and the story line is very uninteresting. The couple times I have attempted to read it to the kids, I feel that I have to try to keep there attention. The book doesn't seem to hold there attention and the text is very annoying. I am not sure what one person was talking about that wrote a review saying the book talks about the circle of life. I don't see it. If you are teaching about pond life. there would be some benifit in reading this book. It shows several pond creatures including the frog, tadpoles, heron, racoon, minnows, swallows eating bugs on the pond and Whirligigs on top of the pond. And Muskrats building a nest. The book ends with a couple pages of winter scenery a geese flying and a frog hibernating under the ground.

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Summary: Nice book
Review: The story was great, the pictures were great. My toddler likes it alot. It's fun reading all the rhyming words to her and great for her short attention span. My only problem with it is that the book itself fell apart after about the third reading. I've had to tape half the pages back together.

Rating:
Summary: Nice book
Review: The story was great, the pictures were great. My toddler likes it alot. It's fun reading all the rhyming words to her and great for her short attention span. My only problem with it is that the book itself fell apart after about the third reading. I've had to tape half the pages back together.

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Summary: Life in a pond.
Review: This short children's book about animal life in a small pond was a 1994 Caldecott Honor book (i.e., a runner-up to the Medal winner) for best illustrations in a children's book. It is a good introduction to the natural world for pre-schoolers.

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Summary: Life in a Pond.
Review: Using strong alliteration and assonance and colorful paintings, this book introduces children to the lively environment of a pond. Children are often surprised to discover that in the still waters of a pond everything from frogs, geese, dragonflys, swallows, turtles, heron, fish, bugs, and even a racoon live in and around the water. Fleming won a Caldecott Honor in 1994 for the lively illustrations in this book.