Real life
Can Bears Ski?
Author Raymond Antrobus
Illustrator Polly Dunbar
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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.
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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.
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First published
2020, Walker Books Ltd