Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words
Karl Beckstrand, Ashley Sanborn
Paperback
(Premio Publishing & Gozo Books, LLC, Nov. 6, 2014)
(Arctic Humor, sports) “A charming wordless story.…Sanborn’s cartooning is full of…polish and physical comedy” – Publisher’s Weekly. The adventures of a polar bear who hitches a ride to Antarctica. He’s never seen penguins before; to him they look like something fun to play with. YOU tell/write the story.A friendly snowball fight set in the poles. Children love to make up stories to go with clever pictures created by Ashley Sanborn (The Dancing Flamingos of Lake Chimichanga and If Cancer Was a Fish) on differences, cooperation, and getting along. Activities include finding and naming animals, cementing vocabulary by describing the action on the pages, or writing a story (ages 2 – 6, preschool to first grade, Emergent/Early Reader/A). See the next in this wordless picture book series: Butterfly Blink. “Kids will delight” – Natasha Yim. Snow story by award-winning children’s author Karl Beckstrand (Why Juan Can’t Sleep—click Karl Beckstrand above for all 60 multicultural books) hard cover or soft cover (also an e-book); friendship book available in 20+ languages: Bulgarian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukranian, Vietnamese; 30-page, 8"x10" kid’s bowling book/sports and outdoors book with sea lion/seal; Premio Publishing & Gozo Books (Stories Without Words bedtime series, worldwide rights © Nov. 2014) PremioBooks, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble/Nook, Brodart, Ingram, Amazon/Kindle, EBSCO, Flipkart, Follett, Gardners, iBooks, Inktera, Kobo, Mackin, OverDrive, Oyster, SCRIBD, Walmart online, and libraries. LCCN: 2014947746, JUV002030, JUV030120, JUV019000, HUM001000, JUV010000, SPO007000, English Hard ISBN: 978-0985398835, Soft ISBN: 978-0692220962 (ebook: 978-1311262097)