Our Pool
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Our Pool
By (Author) Lucy Ruth Cummins
Illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins
Simon & Schuster
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
2nd August 2023
United States
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Diversity, equality and inclusio
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Multicultural
Childrens / Teenage general interest: City and town life
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
Physical Properties
Hardback
48
Width 254mm, Height 254mm, Spine 13mm
558g
Description
On a hot day, people come from all over the city to spend the day at the pool in this joyful picture book thats 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.
Reviews
"Both the chatty, child-friendly text and the gouache, colored pencil, and digitally finished artwork ooze exuberance; Cummins saturated colors and energetic, curving waves are utterly inviting." -- -Kirkus Review, STARRED REVIEW * 04/01/2023 *
Author Bio
Lucy Ruth Cummins is an author, an illustrator, and art director of childrens books. She has been happily paired with Jean Reidy forTruman, which was namedaNew York TimesBest Childrens Book of 2019, andSylvie.She also is the author-illustrator ofA Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals;Stumpkin;Vampenguin; andOur Pool. When she was little, she had a pet spider in the shed where her dad kept the lawnmower. Every day little Lucy caught flies and placed them in her spiders web at mealtimes. Lucy was born in Montreal, raised in upstate New York, and lives with her little family in Brooklyn, New York.
