One Polar Bear

One Polar Bear

by Crystal Beach

 

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GENRE: Children's Fiction

 

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BLURB:

 

One Polar Bear is a delightful rhyming book filled with lovable animals from the Canadian Arctic. Polar Bear is home sick and alone. His many animal friends drop by to cheer him up. This counting story celebrates individuals with a variety of abilities and disabilities, and the text helps teach the numbers one to ten. Canada is a country made up of many peoples and cultures. This book reflects this diversity by featuring the word "welcome" in different languages amongst its pages. One Polar Bear is a wonderful bedtime story and a beautiful way to educate and celebrate the differences in our world.

 

If you can be anything, be inclusive.

 

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EXCERPT

 

 My Review:

This is one book whose blurb really fits. It promises that children will learn about friendship, diversity, and counting, and the book delivers. The illustrations are good too. If my children were still small I'd gladly read this book to them. We'd count the friends and talk about how good friends treat others. A beginning reader would probably be able to read it himself if he wanted, but this book willl appeal to smaller children too. It's definitely a book I would have bought to read to my children. I think children will like it very much.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Crystal Beach is an adoptive mother and caregiver of two children who have complex medical needs and disabilities. Her children are often represented in her work as strong, caring individuals with special gifts and powers. Her writing projects are intended to ensure financial support for her children's future care.

 

Crystal has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Her focus is in children's literature, publishing and journalism. She has had many careers including ten years as a MedA with the Canadian Naval Reserve, training as an EMT and continued studies in developmental psychology.

 

Her volunteer work has included Girl Guides of Canada and wildlife rescue and rehab.

 

She and her family live in Regina, Saskatchewan in a simple little house with two giant support dogs.

 

https://www.facebook.com/crystalbeachauthor

 

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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION 

 

Crystal Beach will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

 

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