Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words (Stories Without Words) - Softcover

Beckstrand, Karl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692220968 ISBN 13: 9780692220962

Publisher: Premio Publishing & Gozo Books, LLC, 2014

Synopsis

(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)

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(Humor) 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 ... Children (ages 2 – 7) love to make up stories to go with clever pictures (created by Ashley Sanborn). Activities include finding and naming animals and cementing vocabulary by describing the action on the pages. Available in soft cover and ebook versions (title in 20+ languages). 30-page, 8"x10" perfect bound picture book and ebook, story by Karl Beckstrand, Premio Publishing & Gozo Books (worldwide rights © Nov. 2014, See inside!) PremioBooks.com, Amazon/Kindle, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble/Nook, Brodart, EBSCO, Flipkart, Follett, iBooks, Ingram, Inktera, Kobo, Mackin, OverDrive, Oyster, SCRIBD, and txtr.

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Premio Publishing & Gozo Books, LLC
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0692220968
• ISBN 13: 9780692220962
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Sanborn Ashley