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It's pool day in the city and everyone is welcome.
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On a hot day, people come from all over the city to spend the day at the pool in this joyful picture book that’s a love song to summer, the city, community, and staying cool!
Today is a pool day in the city! The sun is shining, so what are you waiting for? Friends and family. Kids and grandparents. Big bodies and small bodies. Everybody is welcome at our pool!
Get ready for swimming and splashing, zigzagging and dunking, and racing and laughing.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781534499232
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 13 June 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Illustration: 8-c jkt (spot matte uv, coated); 6-c case; 6-c int (2 neon colors; special uncoated stock)
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 254.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 558g
Pages: 48
About the Author
Lucy Ruth Cummins is an author, illustrator, and art director of children’s books. She was happily paired with Jean Reidy for both Truman, which was named a New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2019, and Sylvie. She is also the author-illustrator of Stumpkin, Vampenguin, Dalmartian: A Mars Rover’s Story, Our Pool, and A Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals. Lucy has swum in creeks, streams, gorges, rivers, swimming holes, pools (above- and in-ground), lakes (both Great and Finger), decorative fountains, and oceans. Her very favorite place to swim, however, is at her community pool in Brooklyn with her sons and her neighbors.
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