Swimming Sal - Hardcover
Sal, a Portuguese Water Dog, feels bad because she's the only dog at Hilltop Farm who hasn't won any awards. She loves to swim, though, and decides that maybe if she joins the children’s YMCA swim team, she too can win a medal. When the coach objects, that plan also looks like it's going to fail, until events take a surprising turn! / With its delightful illustrations, this lighthearted story about the rewards of practice and determination will have readers cheering for the lovable Swimming Sal. It will have special appeal to children who are involved in youth sports.
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Carol Molski has been an elementary school teacher for twenty years, a “swim mom” for ten years, and a dog lover forever. She says that Sal was “born” the day her youngest daughter asked if dogs could join the swim team. This is her first picture book for children. She lives in Wisconsin.
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“Every dog at Hilltop Farm was a winner.” Some win agility contests, some for sheepherding, and some even get Best in Show—except for Sal, the Portuguese water dog. She can swim, but nobody gives medals for swimming. With her mother’s encouragement, Sal is determined to be the “Swimmingest Dog in the World.” She practices in the creek, the bathtub, the plastic pool; she even attempts to join the local swim team but is kicked out. Frustrated by the No Dogs Allowed sign now hung on the gate to the pool, she figures her dreams are over. As luck would have it, though, an injured girl can’t swim in the swim-meet relay race. Sal to the rescue. Although the paintings are somewhat flat, DePalma creates a winsome protagonist in both the full-page illustrations and the smaller images set in the text, and the swim team is refreshingly multiethnic. With perfect publication timing regarding the announcement that the First Dog will be a Portuguese water dog, this title is sure to please dog lovers. Grades K-2. --Patricia Austin
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- PublisherEerdmans Books for Young Readers
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0802853277
- ISBN 13 9780802853271
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages36
- IllustratorDePalma Mary
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