Here's a great new title about 4 swimmers' attempts to cross the English Channel in 1926. Have a youngster in your life? While you read this one, give them America's Champion Swimmer by David A. Adler - one of my favorite picture book biographies. It's about Gertrude Ederle (also one of the 4 swimmers featured in Mortimer's book), a sassy American gal who performed a record-breaking (that's male records - she was the first female to complete the crossing) swim. If you dig this awesome swimmer, maybe you'll want to move on to reading Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox, a modern-day American gal who swims long distances in open water - often FREEZING open water. These books are a great way to get in the mood for the Summer Olympics, where open-water swimming is a new event. I'll bet these ladies all love otters!
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