Creekfinding: A True Story is a 2017 nonfiction picture book written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by Claudia McGehee.

It tells the story of a stream restoration project by Michael Osterholm, who purchased land in northeastern Iowa where a creek had been diverted decades earlier.

Critics praised its focus on environmental conservation as well as McGehee's scratchboard illustrations, and in 2018 it received a Riverby Award, which recognizes nature-related books for children, from the John Burroughs Association.

[4] Osterholm began by clearing out the existing cornfields to uncover the original stream, and replanted native tallgrasses such as big bluestem.

[5] The author, Jacqueline Briggs Martin, decided to write a book about Osterholm after reading a November 2011 article about his project published in The Gazette.

[5] Martin said she spent several months figuring out how to best describe the ecosystem, and that one of her favorite lines from the book was "a creek is more than water".

[9] Her illustrations were created using a scratchboard technique (in which the artist scratches off dark ink to reveal a layer beneath) with watercolor and dyes,[13] with the result resembling painted woodcuts with thick, curving outlines.

[6] In addition to the main narrative, minor facts about the restoration process and wildlife are contained within elements of the pictures, such as blades of grass.

[8][11] A reviewer for Publishers Weekly also praised the note from Osterholm at the end of the book that encourages readers to take action and help restore degraded parts of their environment.

Kirkus Reviews noted that the detailed pictures, with "curving lines filled with life", would still be visible if the book was read to a small group, and Auerbach described the artwork as "stunning".