Karl Beckstrand

Polar Bear Bowler

A Story Without Words

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Produktbeschreibung

"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 friendship, cooperation, and sportsmanship 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)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Premio Publishing & Gozo Books
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780985398835
• ISBN-10: 0985398833
• Artikelnr.: 48167867

Autorenporträt

College media instructor Karl Beckstrand is the best-selling and award-winning author/illustrator of 30 multicultural/multilingual titles and more than 60 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.com, The U.S. Congressional Record, Walmart, and PremioPublishing.com