Real life

Can Bears Ski?

Author Raymond Antrobus

Illustrator Polly Dunbar

  • Story

    A child bear can’t understand why everyone if asking him ‘Can Bears Ski?’ After visiting an audiologist he realises that they have actually been asking ‘Can you hear me?’ A story that vividly shows how the child bear experiences the world and follows him and his father as they discover more about his deafness and what it means.

  • Why we chose it

    A story written from the point of view of the child, which draws on the author’s experience of growing up deaf. 

  • First published

    2020, Walker Books Ltd