Diary of a Super Swimmer by Shamini Flint

Diary of a... #6

by Shamini Flint

Marcus Atkinson is a super swimmer (not!). But his dad is convinced that Marcus has magic in his arms and legs.

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Shamini Flint lives in Singapore with her husband and two children. She began her career in law in Malaysia and also worked at an international law firm in Singapore. She travelled extensively around Asia for her work, before resigning to be a stay-at-home mum, writer, part-time lecturer and environmental activist, all in an effort to make up for her 'evil' past as a corporate lawyer!

Shamini writes children's books with cultural and environmental themes including Jungle Blues and Turtle takes a Trip as well as the 'Sasha' series of children's books. She also writes crime fiction featuring the rotund Singaporean policeman, Inspector Singh. Singh travels around Asia stumbling over corpses and sampling the food ...

Reviews

[Prabhjot Kaur · Rating 3 out of 5]

Marcus is back trying to master yet another sport. After trying and failing at soccer, cricket, rugby, taekwondo and track and field, Marcus' dad insists on trying swimming. Marcus doesn't like swimming and has never been good at it but on his dad's insistence he tries swimming and fails miserably.

He finds out that his older sister Gemma is good at swimming and Gemma offers to help him and she teaches him the basics. When his swim team enters a competition, all his friends come to cheer him up and Marcus' team wins but it turns out that Marcus wasn't part of the team. Gemma took his place in the team and everyone including Marcus and his dad are happy.

This wasn't the best but not the worst either in the series. I just wish that Marcus wasn't as clueless as he's been so far.

3 stars

[Adele Broadbent · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another in the The Diary of ... (different sports) These are funny because the main character is so hopeless at every sport and his father is so hopelessly positive about his son's sports skills. The stories are full of the terminology of each sport, confusing Marcus even more. But somehow Marcus makes it through each attempt at each sport - only to have his Dad believe in him even more.

[Sadie-Jane Huff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute book.. was curious as to what else ms flint did.. hence the book.