Denise Fleming

Mimi and I... is an imaginary journey of a grandmother and her granddaughter. The story is empowering and thought-provoking for children. The book is a depiction of the phrase "If you dream it, you can also be it." Children read each page imagining themselves in the eyes of many well-known role models.

A very hungry mouse eats a large lunch comprised of colorful foods.

Depicts a number of animal babies sleeping as a mother puts her own baby to bed.

Simple rhymes describe the sights, sounds, and smells of Halloween.

A snowman comes alive as the child building it adds pieces during the first ten days of winter.

While two kittens copy everything their mother does, their brother naps.

When Buster the dog's owner goes away for a few days, he sends Buster to Sagebrush Kennels for Cowboy Camp, where Buster is homesick at first, but then has fun herding balls into the corral, gathering sticks for a campfire, and making wanted posters with his pawprints.

Illustrations and rhyming text reveal the great variety of beetles and their swirling, humming, crashing activities.

A mouse works his way through the alphabet as he folds the "F," measures the "M," and rolls the "R."

Buster the dog thinks his perfect life is spoiled when Betty the cat comes to live with him, until he learns not to be afraid of cats.