Swimmers

by María José Ferrada

Other authorsKit Maude (Translator), Mariana Alcántara (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 2022

Description

Fish dream of becoming Olympic swimmers. Olympic swimmers dream that they're fish. Filled with quirky text and amusing illustrations of sturgeons in swimwear and tuna taking the gold, Swimmers merges the worlds of fish and people in this English-language translation of an entirely original book.

Publication

Tapioca Stories (2022), 32 pages

Media reviews

"The story is nonlinear, but the form supports the idea that water is a place of play and possibility. The normal formal rules we live by don’t apply here — we see a clock half-submerged in a fishbowl, fish in swimsuits and swimmers with fins, indicating a fluid interplay between worlds."—The
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

32 p.; 12 inches

ISBN

1734783931 / 9781734783933
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