Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words - Paperback
by Ashley Sanborn (Illustrator), Karl Beckstrand (Author)
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!
Bedtime peace. Find the seal-and discover online SECRETS. Kids cement vocabulary as they find and name animals and describe the action (older kids can write about bowling/describe the environment). Explore this arctic snow story on differences and cooperation for beginning readers (ages 2 - 6, Pre-K - 1st grade). Low stimulation for autistic children. "Charming.... Sanborn's cartooning is full of...polish and physical comedy." - Publisher's Weekly A friendly snowball fight set in the South Pole and brought to life by illustrator Ashley Sanborn (see: The Dancing Flamingos of Lake Chimichanga and If Cancer Was a Fish). #1, Stories Without Words (bedtime story/baby book) series by award-winning author and college media instructor Karl Beckstrand (Why Juan Can't Sleep-don't miss his 60 multicultural books). Get all four no-words books in a bundle or bound in one (4 Seasons Books for Kids)-plus free ebooks and classroom lesson plans: KidsWorldBooks (worldwide rights (c) Nov. 2014), libraries, and major kids' book distributors. Butterfly Blink: A Book Without WordsGopher Golf: A Wordless Picture Book
Big Black Seed: A Book with No Words The perfect length book for toddlers (not too long for adults): 30 full-color pages. Get this children's book on getting along, sportsmanship, and friendship, with covers in 20+ languages, North Pole to South Pole: Bulgarian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. "Kids will delight" - Natasha Yim LOOK inside! School/homeschool, Fountas & Pinnell GRA: A, DRA: 1. 8"x10" hard/soft/ebook. No AI. No CRT, gender, or orientation spiel-just happy winter fun! LCCN: 2014947746; JUV002030, JUV043000, JUV032000, JUV030120, JUV033230, JUV019000, JUV033060, JUV033160, JUV033120, JUV010000; BR-220; YNNJ23, SFV, YFP, JNTS, 5AX; Hard ISBN: 978-0985398835, soft ISBN: 978-0692220962 (ebook: 978-1311262097)
Author Biography
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