Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words

"Charming.... Sanborn's cartooning is full of...polish and physical comedy." - Publisher's Weekly

Children tell you the story! Join the rollicking 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!

"Kids will delight," - Natasha Yim. A friendly snowball fight set in the South and North Poles and brought to life by illustrator Ashley Sanborn (The Dancing Flamingos of Lake Chimichanga and If Cancer Was a Fish).

Find the seal inside-and discover online secrets. Kids cement vocabulary as they find and name animals and describe the events (older kids write on the bowling action/describe the environment). Explore this arctic snow story on differences and cooperation for beginning readers (ages 1 - 6, Pre-K - 1st grade, ESL/ELL/ESOL/ESE, Fountas & Pinnell GRA: A, DRA: 1). Low stimulation for autistic children.

#1, Stories Without Words (bedtime/baby book) series by best-selling, award-winning author and college media instructor Karl Beckstrand (Why Juan Can't Sleep-don't miss Beckstrand's 60 multiracial books). Explore all three no-words books in a bundle (standalone; previous title not needed)-plus free ebooks and classroom lesson plans: Butterfly Blink: A Book Without Words and Gopher Golf: A Wordless Picture Book: KidsWorldBooks (worldwide rights (c) Nov. 2014), libraries, and major book distributors.

LOOK inside! The perfect length book for young kids (not too long for adults: 30 full-color illustrations; 8"x10" hard/soft/ebook), get this children's book on sportsmanship, friendship, and getting along with covers in 20+ languages: Bulgarian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. School/homeschool. No AI or CRT. None of our multicultural kids' books discuss gender or orientation. LCCN: 2014947746; JUV002030, JUV030120, JUV019000, HUM001000, JUV010000, SPO007000; BR-220; YNNJ23, SFV, YFP, JNTS, 5AX; English hard ISBN: 978-0985398835, soft ISBN: 978-0692220962 (ebook: 978-1311262097)


About the Author
Karl Beckstrand is the bestselling and award-winning author of 20 multicultural/multilingual books and more than 50 ebook titles (reviews by Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, School Library Journal, The Horn Book's blog, ForeWord Reviews). Raised in San Jose, CA (he knows the secret to peeling avocados), he has a B.A. in journalism from BYU, an M.A. in international relations from APU, and a broadcast/film certificate from Film A. Academy. Since 2004 he has run Premio Publishing. His survival western, To Swallow the Earth, won a 2016 International Book Award. A college media instructor, Beckstrand has presented to Taiwan's Global Leadership for Youth, city and state governments, festivals, and schools. His nationally lauded Y.A. stories, e-book mysteries, nonfiction, ESL/ELL Spanish/bilingual books, wordless and STEM books feature ethnically diverse characters-and usually end with a twist. His work has appeared in: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Costco, Deseret Book, Follett, iBooks, Ingram, Papercrafts Magazine, Target.com, The U.S. Congressional Record, Walmart.com, FB, Twitter, http: //KarlBeckstrand.com