Raymond Antrobus became the first poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize, and in 2021 he was awarded an MBE for his services to literature. His adult poetry collection The Perseverance won Raymond the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Ted Hughes Award. His poetry collection, All the Names Given, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Can Bears Ski?, illustrated by Polly Dunbar, was Raymond's picture book debut. Find him online at raymondantrobus.com and on Instagram as @raymond_antrobus. Polly Dunbar is an award-winning author-illustrator whose books for Walker include Put Your Shoes On, Red, Red, Red, A Lion Is a Lion and the bestselling Penguin. She has also illustrated books by novelists David Almond and Michael Morpurgo, poets Michael Rosen and Raymond Antrobus and her mother, picture-book author Joyce Dunbar. Find her online at pollydunbar.com and on Instagram as @PollyDunbar.

This multi-layered, skilfully woven story provides a brilliant insight into how children make sense of their experience when they don’t have the words to describe it.

Raymond Antrobus became the first poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize, and in 2021 he was awarded an MBE for his services to literature. His adult poetry collection The Perseverance won Raymond the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Ted Hughes Award. His poetry collection, All the Names Given, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Can Bears Ski?, illustrated by Polly Dunbar, was Raymond's picture book debut. Find him online at raymondantrobus.com and on Instagram as @raymond_antrobus. Polly Dunbar is an award-winning author-illustrator whose books for Walker include Put Your Shoes On, Red, Red, Red, A Lion Is a Lion and the bestselling Penguin. She has also illustrated books by novelists David Almond and Michael Morpurgo, poets Michael Rosen and Raymond Antrobus and her mother, picture-book author Joyce Dunbar. Find her online at pollydunbar.com and on Instagram as @PollyDunbar.

This multi-layered, skilfully woven story provides a brilliant insight into how children make sense of their experience when they don’t have the words to describe it.

Raymond Antrobus became the first poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize, and in 2021 he was awarded an MBE for his services to literature. His adult poetry collection The Perseverance won Raymond the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Ted Hughes Award. His poetry collection, All the Names Given, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Can Bears Ski?, illustrated by Polly Dunbar, was Raymond's picture book debut. Find him online at raymondantrobus.com and on Instagram as @raymond_antrobus. Polly Dunbar is an award-winning author-illustrator whose books for Walker include Put Your Shoes On, Red, Red, Red, A Lion Is a Lion and the bestselling Penguin. She has also illustrated books by novelists David Almond and Michael Morpurgo, poets Michael Rosen and Raymond Antrobus and her mother, picture-book author Joyce Dunbar. Find her online at pollydunbar.com and on Instagram as @PollyDunbar.

This multi-layered, skilfully woven story provides a brilliant insight into how children make sense of their experience when they don’t have the words to describe it.