About Ours polaire, joueur de boules: une histoire sans paroles (Stories Without Words Book 14):
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!
“Charming.… Sanborn’s cartooning is full of…polish and physical comedy.” – Publisher’s Weekly
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.
“Kids will delight” – Natasha Yim
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 three no-words books today—plus free ebooks and classroom lesson plans: KidsWorldBooks (worldwide rights © Nov. 2014), libraries, and major kids’ book distributors.
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The perfect length book for toddlers (not too long for adults): 30 full-color illustrations. 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.
LOOK inside! School/homeschool, ESL/ELL/ESOL/ESE, Fountas & Pinnell GRA: A, DRA: 1. 8″x10″ soft cover/ebook. No AI, CRT, gender, or orientation discussions—just happy winter fun! LCCN: 2014947746; JUV002030, JUV030120, JUV019000, HUM001000, JUV010000, SPO007000; BR-220; YNNJ23, SFV, YFP, JNTS, 5AX; Polar Bear Bowler (English ISBN: 978-0692220962, ebook: 978-1311262097), ISBN: 978-0692220962
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Author Bio:
College media instructor Karl Beckstrand is the best-selling and award-winning author/illustrator of 30 multicultural/multilingual titles and more than 65 ebooks. He’s lived abroad and interned for a Massachusetts publisher and for Congress in D.C. He earned a B.A. in journalism, an M.A. in international relations and conflict resolution, and a broadcast/film certificate. He’s been a technical recruiter in Silicon Valley, a Stanford Hospital chaplain, a Spanish interpreter for Angel Flight (aviator nonprofit), and a rock band front man. He’s won multiple publishing awards, including a 2016 International Book award for his Y.A. western survival thriller, To Swallow the Earth, and his works have been lauded by Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, The Horn Book, and School Library Journal. Raised in Silicon Valley, he has worked with people from all continents (except Antarctica). His work reflects cultural diversity—not only in protagonists, but in collaborators (his illustrators hail from Latin America, Europe, and Asia). Since 2004, he has run Premio Publishing. Beckstrand has presented to Taiwan’s Global Leadership for Youth, city and state governments, festivals, and schools. His Y.A. stories, self-help, ebook mysteries, nonfiction, Spanish/bilingual, career, and STEM books feature ethnically diverse characters—and usually end with a twist. His work has appeared via: Amazon, Apple/iBooks, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Costco, Deseret Book, Follett, Ingram, Kobo, Papercrafts Magazine, Everand, Target, The U.S. Congressional Record, Walmart, and KidsWorldBooks.