A practical handbook on gymnastics for beginners. With an emphasis on safety, this easy-to-use guide takes readers from basic moves through to more advanced stages. A number of skills are explained in step-by step format, including cartwheels, backflips and vaulting.

 

This book features in the following series: Super Series, Super. Activ .

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Hachette Children's Group .

Caroline Plaisted worked in publishing for 14 years before becoming a freelance editor and writer. Martin Salisbury is Professor of Illustration at Cambridge School of Art in Anglia Ruskin University, where he designed and leads the UK's first Masters programme in children's book illustration. Among his books on the subject are Play Pen: New Children's Book Illustration (2007) and Children's Picturebooks (2011).