Polar Bear Bowler — Karl Beckstrand

(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.A friendly snowball fight set in the poles. Children (ages 2 �" 6, preschool to first grade) 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 (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)