Our Pool
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Public pools, those unsung heroes of public good, have found their bard in Cummins (Sleepy Sheepy). In vibrant gouache and colored pencil hues that are reminiscent of a schoolchild's paint set, initial pages show a variously inclusive parade of city dwellers "sweating, and smiling, and skip-stepping toward... OUR POOL!" As the illustrations move over, around, and under the be-goggled crowd in compositions ranging from reportorial to bird's-eye view, the story's kid narrator enthusiastically recounts the ritual-like pleasures of pool-going, from getting changed to getting in ("I'm the JUMP-RIGHT-IN! type") to breathless communal reactions over the sun's movements to a final, parting cannonball. In a cleverly executed conceit, the first-person narrator is never tied to a specific individual: when Mom insists on sunscreen, Cummins zooms in on four adult hands brandishing bottles and cans; when the narrator floats behind Mom "like a cape," readers see multiple parent-child pairs moving through the water in a line. It's a joyfully saturated vision of e pluribus unum shown via "an ice-cold bowl of City People Soup!" Ages 4–8.
