One day his dad takes him to see an Audiologist who after performing some tests explains that little bear suffers from hearing loss and starts him on lip-reading course as well as giving him hearing aids. He soon learns that people weren’t asking him about skiing but rather ‘can you hear me?’

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The soap star has actively campaigned for BSL to be recognised as an official language and be given legal status in the UK. It’s large enough to accommodate everyone, from families with buggies and social groups, to those looking for a peaceful spot to work. A little bear is struggling to understand why people keep saying "Can bears ski?". He doesn't heaar his friend say Hello, the teacher speaks to dad. He goes to an audiologist. He gets hearing aids! Theatre: Lord of The Flies(Leeds Playhouse, Belgrade Theatre Coventry & Rose Theatre Kingston); Hansel & Gretel(PaddleBoat Theatre Company); Galwad(National Theatre Wales); Flood(Theatre Temoin); Getting There(Deafinitely Theatre, Toucan Theatre & Oxford Playhouse); Playmakers (Mousetrap Theatre Projects) and Red (Polka Theatre). Catherine Chapman’s designs – flowers, snow, carrots, russet leaves, and more – underpin the seasonal progression, once Tortoise has emerged from hibernation and we await the famous race.

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Ebony Feare is a deliciously charismatic tortoise, languorous with an impressive range of reptilian faces and stances and a resonant singing voice. Stefan Stuart’s ever impatient hare, more boyish than leporine, makes for an appropriately lively contrast despite his weaker singing voice. Bear is not sure that he always hears his Dad right. He seems to be asking him the same question again and again. Can bears ski? Author of 'To Sweeten Bitter'(2017) 'The Perseverance'(2018), 'All The Names Given'(2021) and children's picture book ' Can Bears Ski?' (2020)

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Polly graduated from Brighton Art School in 1999, where she studied illustration. Her best-selling book Penguin Join Little Bear and Dad Bear as they learn how there are many ways to communicate love, and to find your place in the world.The situation for Bear is a sad one and the beautiful illustrations and text really tug at your heart strings. You just want to make things better for Bear. You feel sad for his friends and teachers, his family, who want to include him and talk to him but do not know how.