Picture Book Month - Day 19

Today's illustrator, Denise Fleming, specializes in pulp painting.   She describes it  as "creating images by pouring colored paper pulp through hand-cut stencils."  http://www.denisefleming.com/index.html
I love the vibrancy of her work and her stories are perfect for toddlers.  As she states:
My books do not have many words, but I start with hundreds of words—writing and rewriting until I have just the right words to tell the story.(I love strong words, action words, words that convey movement and sound. And I love rhyme.)  She won a Caldecott Honor in 1994 for In the Small, Small Pond.

In the Tall, Tall Grass, published in 1991, was Denise Flemings first picture book.  It tells the story of a nature walk in wonderful rhythm and rhyme.  "In the tall, tall grass...crunch, munch caterpillars lunch  dart, dip hummingbirds sip..."  It is fun for toddler story times to have the children act out the actions of the animals in the story and the illustrations are bright and eyecatching - bold enough for everyone to see.

A favorite of mine for hibernation and fall story times is Time to Sleep.  A cumulative story wherein bear sense winter is coming and tells a friend, who tells another, until finally ladybug tells bear.  A nice story that shows all of teh animals getting ready for winter.

There is a book for every season, as well as a wonderful alphabet book.  Check out this wonderful author!