swimming

Discusses swimming and diving in the Olympics, describing the sport's Olympic history, dramatic moments, and key players.

"Describes the origins of women's competitive swimming in the United States, covering many obstacles to safe swimming opportunities, including restrictive beliefs about physical abilities, access to safe clean water, bathing suits that did not allow for movement, and opposition from official sporting organizations"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at strength training for faster swimming, focusing on making strength training count, the swimming muscles, stages of development and strength training, and other topics.

Lift the flaps and join the fun. Turn the pages and fold out the flaps to see who can swim in this bright interactive board book. With sweet pictures from a favourite children's book illustrator, this simple guessing game will provide hours of fun for babies.

Determined to graduate from the Polliwog swim class and into Dolphin, Stink trains to be able to put his face into the water. During his training, he encounters what appears to be a mutant frog and, soon after, begins exhibiting frog-like behavior -- causing him to worry that he is turning into a frog.

Explains how numbers are used in swimming and uses the sport to introduce simple math.

When summer arrives on Nebulon, Zack discovers that his best friend, Drake, is afraid to learn to swim and decides to teach him before they go on a trip to water-covered planet Araxie.

"A competitive swimmer gets in over her head as she plays a wicked cat-and-mouse game with her wild best friend and a hot new college swimmer."--Provided by publisher.