A child-bear discovers their deafness, visiting an audiologist with their father. “Can Bears Ski?” people keep asking child bear. But when they visit an audiologist, they realise that isn’t the question at all – it’s actually “can you hear me?”.
An insider’s story of deafness for very young children, written by a deaf poet and illustrated by a hard of hearing illustrator. We represent illustrator Polly Dunbar, and you can read our full review here.
A content note: this is a book about deafness – not Deaf culture (it’s set in a hearing school and characters don’t sign.) But the paperback edition will include a sign language alphabet at the back – BSL for the UK edition.