Humans, unlike other animals that are drawn to water, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now in the 21st century, we swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested...
Swimming
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Author:Tsui, BonnieSummary: - Author:Wong, JackSummary:
Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Award. A reverent celebration of learning to swim among a diverse cast of children and families who each experience the mysterious joys of water in nature. In this exploration of what it...
- Author:Sandor, StevenSummary:
All Andy can think about is getting a chance to make the national swim team. He practises constantly to get his swim time down and he's saving money to pay the competition fees by working part-time at a comic book store. When a video of...
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Author:De Vries, Maggie, Kun, Janice, Gould, HeatherSummary:This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Ally isn't able to live with her mother. Instead she lives far, far away, on the other side of the country, with her gram and great-aunt. But one summer Ally goes to stay with...
- Author:de Vries, MaggieSummary:
Ally isn't able to live with her mother. Instead she lives far, far away, on the other side of the country, with her gram and great-aunt. But one summer Ally goes to stay with her aunt and uncle in the "big city by the ocean" and gets...
- Author:Christmas, JohnnieSummary:
Combines wonderful characters and history to create a story that will make you want to dive right in!" JERRY CRAFT, author of the Newbery Medal-winning New KidA splashy, contemporary middle grade graphic novel from bestselling comics...
- Author:Ramadan, Ahmad DannySummary:
"Salma dreams of becoming a champion swimmer like her hero, Olympian Yusra Mardini. So when she signs up for her school’s swim club, it feels like her dreams could come true . . . until mean comments from older girls at the pool...
- Author:Bowler, TimSummary:
Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.
- Author:Gallagher, HarrySummary:
As a child of the Depression in Sydney's inner west, Harry Gallagher learnt life the hard way. The resourcefulness and determination Harry gained were to stand him in good stead, when his swimmers, Jon Henricks, Dawn Fraser and...
- Author:Dewdney, AnnaSummary:
A padded storybook treasury starring everyone's favorite llama! Fans of Anna Dewdney's best-selling Llama Llama series, now a Netflix animated original series, will join Llama, his Mama, and all their friends in a collection of stories...
- Author:Rosenstock, BarbSummary:
Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish - fins and all! This fascinating and lively account of young Ben's earliest invention follows the budding scientist's journey as he...
