Make My World Safe: Around Water…Outdoor Water Safety for Children

Just hearing the stories are enough to make you cry: a baby manages to get a back door open, crawls across a patio to the sparkling pool where she's seen adults having fun, and falls in. It's even worse when the child's mother recounts the tragedy: after her daughter's drowning, World Pairs Figure Skating Champion Barbara Underhill established the Stephanie Gaetz Keepsafe Foundation in her baby's memory to educate others about water hazards. Around Water, one of six programs in the Make My World Safe series, is a short and very important production that features studio discussions between Underhill and experts from the Canadian Red Cross and the Royal Lifesaving Society, dramatic re-enactments, and a caught-on-video toddler escapade near poolside that'll have parents leaping out of their seats to the rescue. An absolute must for public libraries on both sides of the border, this is highly recommended. Editor's Choice. [Note: The other titles in the series are: On the Go: Child Car Seats and Kidestrians, At Play: Playground Safety, From Fire: Fire Prevention and Escape Strategies, In the Home, Part 1: Kitchens and Bedrooms, and In the Home, Part 2: Falls, Bathrooms and Poison Prevention.] Aud: P. (R. Reagan)