Explores the nature and appeal of swimming, from the history of the strokes to aspects of modern Olympic competition, as well as the author's personal experiences and milestones in the sport.

Shows adults how to train children to swim.

Water has always been a big part of my mother's life. She spent summer after summer at her neighborhood pools. When she was old enough she became a lifeguard. Throughout my mother's life she has encountered many children who had no idea how to swim. Something had to change and she felt that she could make a difference. My mother got her undergraduate degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD where she took lifeguarding and water safety instruction. She began teaching swimming at 18 for the Red Cross Learn- to- Swim program. After completing College, she taught for only three years before going into the private sector, but made sure she ran and stayed fit. Ultimately, she returned to teaching more than 20 years later. She was able to get her Lifeguard, First-Aid, AED, Lifeguard Instructors and Water Safety Instructor certifications, which she maintained until the present. When I was little I used to love playing in the bathtub. Before I was two years old my mother would have me practice exhaling in the bathtub water. She bought me some colorful stick-on numbers, shapes, and letters which she placed in the bathroom on the tub wall. This became our little nightly play area. By the age of two, I could call out all the numbers from 1-10, name all the colors and shapes on the bath tub, as well as exhale under water while kicking to the count of ten. I was only two years old, and was already prepared to be in an actual pool. There are many reasons why children don't know how to swim today. These reasons include: a fear of water, parents who are fearful of water and are scared for their children to learn, swimming was never important for them to learn, bad experiences or just not having access to do so.

My mother is responsible for this book, and she's the spokesperson throughout except when emphasis is needed and we both add our two cents! She started talking about writing a book on how to teach children to swim in 1961. Since her expertise was teaching, not writing, she convinced me that writing the book with her would be as much fun as I was having teaching with her, but she had to wait because at 10 years old I was still developing my command of the English language.While I grew up and got my college education, she put her dream book on hold. She kept teaching and helped Larry build a log cabin home on their 40-acre Oregon farm, rebuilt a barn that blew down one winter, even built a chicken coop. She grows her own vegetables, cans what she grows, freezes the meat that Larry raises on the hoof, and still hangs all her laundry on the line outside because she likes the fresh-air smell! When we finally refocused on the book, we yelled, hollered, laughed until we cried, and thought we'd lost our marbles trying to describe in words on paper what we do naturally in the water from our hearts and with our hands. But here it is-my mother's dream come true. It's like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow... priceless.

Swim Into Summer By: Nancy Przybylowicz What does life look like for a young girl in school and on her way to summer vacation? In Swim Into Summer, Samanda’s summer vacation is turning out to be not so relaxing as she attempts to juggle stress with her boyfriend, mother, and figuring out who she is along the way.

The sensation of water flowing around my body happily floating down a river, watching the banks pass me by. I like to take the same journey as a river it's the lack of control which feels so good, it's good to leave my life alone for a while. Liz grew up in the Lake District. She spent her childhood walking in the fells, playing in the lakes and in the river at the end of her garden. After time away living in the City, Liz returns to the hills and into a new village for a new chapter of her life. But when her new community is rocked by tragedy, Liz rediscovers outdoor swimming and how it can keep both her and her new friends afloat. Filled with humour and heart, live music and projection, Swim is a tender tale based on a true story. This edition was published to coincide with the run at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, in March 2022.