Author: Denise Fleming
Title: In the Small, Small Pond
Illustrator: Unknown
Genre: Fiction/Picture
Subgenre: Pond Animals
Theme: The pond is filled with multiple lives that depend on each other.
Primary Characters/Secondary Characters: Tadpoles, geese, horseflies, turtles, heron, minnow, whiligig, swallow, crawdad, duck, raccoon, muskrat.
Award/Date: None/1993
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Summary: This story merely tells about the lives around the pond. It reveals how multiple types of creatures are influenced by this pond and the life inside of it. It is short, sweet, and to the point.
How used: Alliteration, assonance, and rhyming are three literary devices use within this story. It is important to start familiarizing students with these things early. You do not have to drill it into their heads that those particular things are called the specific literary terms, but it is important that they are at least introduced to the ideas to help them further in later readings.
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