Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words
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Publisher Description
“Charming.… Sanborn’s cartooning is full of…polish and physical comedy” – Publisher’s Weekly.
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.
Children cement their vocabulary as they find and name animals and describe/write the story. Get this wordless picture book on differences, cooperation, and getting along (for beginning readers ages 2 – 6, preschool – 1st grade, Emergent Reader/Fountas & Pinnell: A, DRA: 1). Find the sea lion/seal inside!
“Kids will delight” – Natasha Yim. A friendly snowball fight set in the poles and brought to life by illustrator Ashley Sanborn (The Dancing Flamingos of Lake Chimichanga and If Cancer Was a Fish). 8"x10" snow story by best-selling, award-winning author and media professor Karl Beckstrand (Why Juan Can’t Sleep—see 60+ multicultural books—click Karl Beckstrand above).
#1, Stories Without Words (bedtime) series. See others in this no-words series: Butterfly Blink and Gopher Golf. This children’s book on sportsmanship, friendship, and cooperation is available in hard cover, soft cover, or e-book in 20+ languages: Bulgarian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukranian, and Vietnamese.
The perfect length book for kids (not too long for adults): 30 full-color illustrations. Premio Publishing & Gozo Books (worldwide rights © Nov. 2014) PremioBooks, libraries, and all major distributors. LCCN: 2014947746, JUV002030, JUV030120, JUV019000, HUM001000, JUV010000, SPO007000, English Hard ISBN: 978-0985398835, Soft ISBN: 978-0692220962 (ebook: 978-1311262097)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a charming wordless story, a polar bear climbs aboard a boat and hitches a ride down to Antarctica. After clambering up onto an ice sheet, the bear spies three distant shapes that resemble bowling pins and begins to roll a snowball. Readers may guess (correctly) that the bowling pins are actually penguins, and after one of them gets hit by the polar bear's first throw, the birds pummel the bear with snowballs that pile up to create an igloo to trap him. Sanborn's cartooning is full of these kinds of rapid-fire gags, which give the animals' back-and-forth games the feel of classic cartoon battles between the likes of Tom and Jerry or Sylvester and Tweety. It's all in good fun, though, and eventually the bear uses his bulk to create a bowling lane that they can all play on one that uses pins made of snow, not birds. The story ends abruptly (a seal pops up in the bowling lane, suggesting a new player may be joining the party), but the polish and physical comedy of Sanborn's images more than compensate. Ages 4 8. (BookLife)
