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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
208 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Whether you want to take your first tentative dip in your local wild swimming spot or take on a long-distance swimming challenge, you'll find everything you need to embrace outdoor swimming and enjoy the health and wellbeing benefits it offers. Have you ever wondered what kit you need for winter swimming or how to fall in love with the cold? This book includes dedicated information about each season, ensuring you have everything you need to make...
6) Swimming
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"This photo-illustrated book for early readers introduces the basics of swimming and encourages kids to try it. Includes labeled diagram of swimming pool and photo glossary"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Description
From what to wear (a bathing suit, of course!) to what to expect (no, your teacher will not be a mermaid), 3, 2, 1 Jump! covers the what if's and how to's of getting in the pool for the first time. There's a lot to worry about (can I be sucked in the filter?) and even more to be excited about (when can I wear flippers?), and our narrator has thought of everything. By the time she's ready, you to will want to jump in!
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
iii, 193 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Description
"Swimming Anatomy" includes 74 of the most effective swimming exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations highlighting the primary muscles in action and showing how each exercise is fundamentally linked to swimming performance.
12) Dino-swimming
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Formats
Description
Plant-eating dinosaurs compete against meat-eating dinosaurs at a swimming meet.
Author
Series
Adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 3
Formats
Description
Sophie Mouse wants to prove how wonderful mice are for a school project she is doing with her brother, Winston, but starts to have doubts when, even with Hattie and Owen's help, she is unable to learn to swim.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
255 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Whether in lake, lido, river or sea, we know the benefits of swimming outdoors and in nature - environmentally friendly and accessible, it can influence our happiness, our energy and our inner tranquility, and give us that winter glow. Danish scientist Dr Susanna Søberg leads us step by step into the icy water and explains the "cold-shock response", the massive endorphin rush as our body reacts and adapts to very cold temperatures through the winter...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
For young athletes who want to learn how to improve their swimming skills and become an advanced swimmer, this exciting guide is the answer! Detailed photographs take readers through step-by-step drills on starts, turns, freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and more. Clear text outlines the rules of competition and discusses diet and staying fit. Young athletes will also be inspired by fact boxes about current swimming stars and the secrets...
Author
Series
Captain Awesome volume 4
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
115 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
To finish summer swimming lessons, Eugene brings out his superhero alter ego, Captain Awesome, to confront the "Blobby Blob-Blob" at the deep end of the pool.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
vii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Swimming is a long thread that connects the Olympic heroes of today with the real and mythic ones of the past across more than ten millennia--a recorded history that begins in a cave in the Egyptian desert and sweeps across athletes and poets, statesmen and emperors, humans and gods; across the whole human experience, the entire human story. Splash! weaves a 10,000-year-old tale that begins in a bone-dry cave in the remote southwest corner of Egypt,...
19) Up for air
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Description
Learning disabilities make school painful for Annabelle, thirteen, but a summer of swimming with the high school team is fantastic until a prank goes wrong, spoiling everything.
20) Freedom swimmer
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Description
"Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals...But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond...
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