Can Bears Ski?

Raymond Antrobus became the first ever poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre. He has also won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Ted Hughes Award, PBS Winter Choice, and a Sunday Times & The Guardian Poetry Book of the Year 2018 Awards. Can Bears Ski? is his first picture book. Find him online at raymondantrobus.com, on Instagram as @raymond_antrobus and Twitter as @RaymondAntrobusPolly Dunbar is the author-illustrator of Red, Red, Red, A Lion Is a Lion and the bestselling, award-winning picture book Penguin. She is also the illustrator of My Dad’s a Birdman, written by David Almond, and Shoe Baby and Pat-a-Cake Baby, written by her mother, Joyce Dunbar. Find her online at pollydunbar.com and on Twitter as @PollyDunbar.

The detail of how Little Bear can feel the vibration of Dad’s feet on the floor rather than hear his voice in the morning, and how he can feel the crunch of the snow under his feet when he walks to school, as well as the experience of visiting an audiologist, bring an authenticity to the depiction of being deaf or hard of hearing in childhood alongside a lovely story told in a relatable child voice.