Let's Go Swimming With Mr. Sillypants

Let's Go Swimming With Mr. Sillypants Synopsis

A silly, whimsical book about dreaming and getting over one's fears by a celebrated American cartoonist and illustrator. Mr. Sillypants is going to learn how to swim tomorrow.

He's excited! It's about time. But he starts to get nervous.

"What if I step on a fish?" He asks his goldfish. "What if all the other people in the class are better than I am?" He says aloud as he makes his favorite bedtime snack, a pickle and peanut butter sandwich. By the time he goes to bed, Mr.

Sillypants is not sure swimming lessons are such a good idea after all. When Mr. Sillypants falls asleep, he dreams he's out for a walk, when he suddenly plummets into a big pond.

"I can't swim!" he yells. Soon though, his worries about swimming are far from his mind: he morphs into a fish, and chases after deep sea sandwiches and flees from an enormous pickle monsters. The next morning, Mr.

Sillypants wakes up with a start-maybe his swimming lessons are going to be okay after all. Told with warm humor and illustrated with stunning watercolors, M. K.

Brown has crafted a hilarious adventure out of an everyday fear. This silly-looking man can teach us all how to conquer scary things by laughing right at them.