When I was a child, going to the pool was one of my favorite summer pastimes. I spent hours there, jumping in with the other kids, playing Marco Polo, and, diving off the diving board. When I needed a little space, I would swim to the deep end and sit on the bottom for a little while. It was always so quiet and restful down there. Today's picture book will take readers into the deep end of a swimming pool where they will encounter wonderful sights and see a friendship develop.
Pool
Pool
JiHyeon Lee
Wordless Picture Book
For ages 5 and up
Chronicle Books, 2015, 978-1-4521-4294-4
A boy arrives at the pool, which is empty
and serene. Then, without warning, a pack of loud, boisterous people arrive
with their balls, floating rings, and paddle boats. The pool is so full of
people and their gear that the boy can barely see the water at all. Everywhere
he looks there is chaos, and for a while he just watches. Then the boy dives
in, going under the paddling legs of all the other people.
Deep
underwater the boy he meets a girl, and together they swim down into a magical
world conjured up by their own imaginations. There, in the quiet away from the
crowds, they find a place full of wonderful creatures, and in the process they
find something that is priceless.
The best thing about having an imagination is that it can take you anywhere.
The sky is the limit. Better still, your imagination can brighten up a dull day
and offer relief when something does not quite work out the way you hoped.
In
this wordless picture book the author takes readers into a world where anything
is possible, and where something wonderful can happen that will last long after
the threads of daydreams fade and drift away.
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