When You Can Swim
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A reverent celebration of learning to swim among a diverse cast of children and families who each experience the mysterious joys of water in nature. In expansive vignettes, we meet sandpipers, tannin-soaked lakes, the feeling of a small waterfall on one's shoulders. Artist and author Jack Wong has delivered an empowering, poetic modern classic that fills readers with the wonder and confidence needed to overcome their fears of the water. When You Can Swim invites children into the warmth and wonder of the natural world and its watery splendors. At the same time, children will experience the joyousness that nature's lessons teach us through its beauty.
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Jack Wong was discouraged as a child by his fearful mother and his own fears of looking different from others in Canada from learning to swim. When he learned to swim later in life, and when he dared to swim out in nature, he discovered the joys of swimming in different settings, and it is these delights that he shares with us in this beautifully illustrated, beautifully written book.
