As a young girl, Denise Fleming spent many hours in her father's workshop cutting, gluing, carving, and building things. Today she spends those hours in her own workshop making the paper that she uses to illustrate her picture books. Her unique paper-making technique is a labor-intensive process that involves hauling buckets of water, beating pulp, and hand-mixing color dyes. Fleming then cuts her paper into bold, textured illustrations that she combines with catchy verse, playful plots, and timely page turns. Watch the interview to learn more about her and read a short biography about her life. Includes an interview transcript and a selected list of her books.

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children's literature

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Additional Tags

children's illustrator, denise fleming, reading rockets, children's book illustrator, elementary authors d - f

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional