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Swimmers by María José Ferrada (2022, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherTapioca Stories

ISBN-101734783931

ISBN-139781734783933

eBay Product ID (ePID)6057272188

Product Key Features

Book TitleSwimmers

Number of Pages32 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicSports & Recreation / Olympics, Humorous Stories, General

IllustratorAlcántara, Mariana

GenreJuvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction

AuthorMaría José Ferrada

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length11.8 in

Item Width9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

Reviews"...a gently absurdist excursion that turns a human wish-- Olympic swimmers/ dream that they're fish --on its head...Debut creator Alcántara imagines an alternate universe of Olympic training that brims with quiet humor. Humans, fish, and droll human-fish hybrids smudged in lithograph-like grays stroke and kick and plunge through white pages that function visually as water. But instead of Olympian strength and endurance, the artist's sly underwater civilization is driven by creativity, invention, and hope."-- Publishers Weekly, "The story is nonlinear, but the form supports the idea that water is a place of play and possibility. The normal formal rules we live by don't apply here -- we see a clock half-submerged in a fishbowl, fish in swimsuits and swimmers with fins, indicating a fluid interplay between worlds."--The New York Times "...a gently absurdist excursion that turns a human wish-- Olympic swimmers/ dream that they're fish --on its head...Debut creator Alcántara imagines an alternate universe of Olympic training that brims with quiet humor. Humans, fish, and droll human-fish hybrids smudged in lithograph-like grays stroke and kick and plunge through white pages that function visually as water. But instead of Olympian strength and endurance, the artist's sly underwater civilization is driven by creativity, invention, and hope."-- Publishers Weekly

Grade FromKindergarten

Grade ToThird Grade

SynopsisFish dream of becoming Olympic swimmers...Olympic swimmers dream that they're fish. It's a very unlikely dream. Swimmers uses humor and poetry to show the reader how a page can be a deep, blue sea or an Olympic swimming pool and blurs the line between what is and isn't possible. Filled with quirky text and amusing illustrations of sturgeons in swimwear and tuna taking the gold, Swimmers merges the worlds of fish and people in this English-language translation of an entirely original book. About the Publisher Tapioca Stories, a New York-based publishing house with Latin American soul, introduces young English readers to the finest Latin American children's books, originally written in Spanish and Portuguese., Based on the premise that every species has a recurring dream, Swimmers takes the reader on a surreal, dream-state adventure.