In If I Played Basketball with Giant Short-Faced Bears, a young girl imagines what it would be like to go back in time and play basketball with giant short-faced bears during the last Ice Age, before they went extinct. Readers will learn how giant short-faced bears lived in a fun, fictional format. Action-packed illustrations and carefully leveled text engage young readers in a supportive educational fiction reading experience. Children can learn more about giant short-faced bears using Fact Surfer, our safe online search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. This book also features a diagram, a picture glossary, an index, a table of contents, and tools for teachers and caregivers. Grasshopper Books offers simple, fun fiction for emerging readers. If I Played Basketball with Giant Short-Faced Bears is part of Jump!'s If I Met an Ice Age Animal series.