Topsy and Tim: Learn to Swim

Jean Adamson

ISBN 10: 024174444X / ISBN 13: 9780241744444

Published by Penguin Random House Children's UK, GB, 2025

About this Item

Learn to swim with everybody's favourite twins! A fantastic, colourful story book from the ever popular Topsy and Tim series.Topsy and Tim are always finding fun adventures in the real world, and this story is reassuring for young children having first experiences of their own. Going to the swimming pool for the first time can be daunting but Topsy and Tim are having fun! Follow the twins on their adventures as they have lessons, learn to swim without their armbands and take part in a swimming competition.A trusted and well-loved pair who can help guide parents and children through 'first experiences'. This bestselling Topsy and Tim title has been refreshed with a contemporary and fresh style that will appeal to a new generation of readers.

Seller Inventory # LU-9780241744444

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Topsy and Tim: Learn to Swim
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK, GB
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 024174444X
• ISBN 13: 9780241744444
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 184 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Topsy and Tim are always finding fun adventures in the real world, and this story is reassuring for young children having first experiences of their own. Going to the swimming pool for the first time can be daunting but Topsy and Tim are having fun! Follow the twins on their adventures as they have lessons, learn to swim without their armbands and take part in a swimming competition.

A trusted and well-loved pair who can help guide parents and children through 'first experiences'. This bestselling Topsy and Tim title has been refreshed with a contemporary and fresh style that will appeal to a new generation of readers.

About the Author

Jean Adamson is the creator of more than 100 much-loved children's books spanning five decades.
She studied Illustration at Goldsmiths where she met her future husband and writing partner Gareth Adamson (1925-1982). They worked on children's books together, with Gareth producing the storylines and Jean the illustration, including Topsy and Tim.
More than 140 Topsy and Tim titles have been published, selling upwards of 21 million copies around the world. Since 1998, over a million copies have been sold in the UK alone. Sixty episodes of an animated TV series followed, and three seasons of a live-action version have broadcast on CBeebies, which won the BAFTA Pre-school Live Action award in 2016.
In 1999 Jean Adamson was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature.