Ready, Set, Swim!

by Elliott Smith, Katie Kear (Illustrator)

Overview

Sibling rivalry gets even more intense when twins are involved! Brothers and swim teammates Ty and Tristan have always tried to one-up the other, especially in the pool. When their competitiveness threatens to cost the team the big relay race, the swimming twins need to rethink, reset, and work together to bring home the win.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515870975
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	08/01/2020
Series:	Kids' Sports Stories
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	500L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Elliott Smith is a freelance writer, editor and author. He has covered a wide variety of subjects, including sports, entertainment and travel, for newspapers, magazines and web sites. He has written a nonfiction book about the Washington Nationals and a children's book about Bryce Harper. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his wife and two children.

Katie Kear loves illustrating new worlds and characters and sharing her artwork with others. She is a graduate of the University of Gloucestershire, England, with a degree in illustration. Reading has always played an important part in Katie’s life. Whether it was reading her first picture books with her mother and imagining new stories for the characters, or as an older child reading chapter books into the night, she remembers always having a love for books. That love is what made her choose a career in illustration. When she’s not drawing, Katie enjoys adventures in nature, chocolate, stationery, the smell of cherries, and finding new artists to inspire her.

Interviews

short sentences, text-illustration match, and sight words to support new readers; sports stories for young athletes focus on personal strengths and teamwork, not on competition; diverse characters enable readers to better see themselves in the stories; glossaries define content terms with pictures and words for clear understanding; a story-related back-matter feature (e.g., game, craft, recipe) in each title enhances the reading experience