Happy Learn to Swim Day! And a big welcome to Julie Abery, who is the author of Sakamoto’s Swim Club, a story about—you guessed it—learning to swim. Soichi Sakamoto, who has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, pioneered training methods that have become standard throughout the sport of swimming. Yet, he started out knowing nothing about training. Continue reading
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Julie Abery–What Was on Her . . .
Lovers of rhyme, rejoice! Our guest today is Julie Abery, a rhythm-maker and rhymer extraordinaire. Julie has six books to her name, with three more on the way. She has written board books about little animals, a biography about an Olympic swimmer, a nonfiction about a swimming team—and every single one of them is in … Continue reading