Denise Fleming

• In the Tall, Tall Grass (1991) • Count! (1992) • Lunch (1992) • In the Small, Small Pond (1993) • Barnyard Banter (1994) • Where Once There Was a Wood (1996) • Time to Sleep (1997) • Mama Cat Has Three Kittens (1998) • The Everything Book (2000) • Pumpkin Eye (2001) • Alphabet Under Construction (2002) • Buster (2003) • The First Day of Winter (2005) • The Cow Who Clucked (2006) • Beetle Bop (2007) • Buster Goes to Cowboy Camp (2008) • Sleepy, Oh So Sleepy (2010) • SHOUT! Shout it out! (2011) • underGROUND (2012) • Go, Shapes, Go! (2013) • Maggie and Michael Get Dressed (2016) • 5 Little Ducks (2016) • This Is the Nest That Robin Built (2018)

Her first book, In the Tall, Tall Grass, was published by Henry Holt and Company in 1991. Twenty years later, In the Small, Small Pond was runner-up for the inaugural, 2013 Phoenix Picture Book Award. The Phoenix Awards recognize the best children's books published twenty years earlier that did not win major contemporary awards. Her other books include The Cow Who Clucked, The First Day of Winter, Underground, and 5 Little Ducks.

underGROUND is a Junior Library Guild book. Awards and honors for Fleming's writing • Year — Title — Award/Honor — Result — Ref. • 1994 — In the Small, Small Pond — Caldecott Medal — Runner-up • 1998 — Time to Sleep — Charlotte Zolotow Award — Commended • 1999 — Mama Cat Has Three Kittens — Charlotte Zolotow Award — Commended • 2003 — Alphabet Under Construction — ALSC Notable Children's Books — Selection • 2004 — Buster — Charlotte Zolotow Award — Commended • 2013 — In the Small, Small Pond — Phoenix Picture Book Award — Runner-up • 2013 — underGROUND — Charlotte Zolotow Award — Commended