About 4 Activity Books for Kids: Family Fun & Learning (Learning Activity Books for Kids Book 2):
Build young minds today—away from screens. Explore popular kid adventures (bound in one volume) with Black, White, Hispanic, and Native American/1st Nations characters. Each bedtime story comes with a ready-to-use hands-on educational activity, from finding constellations to trying career costumes to gardening to cooking (for energetic students ages 4 – 9 years, Pre-K – 4th grade): GROW: How We Get Food from Our Garden Great Cape o’ Colors: Career Costumes for Kids Bad Bananas: A Story Cookbook for Kids Bright Star, Night Star: An Astronomy StoryFind the tractor. Discover online SECRETS. Includes free ebooks and low-preparation lesson plans with built-in literacy: KidsWorldBooks (worldwide rights © July. 2022), libraries, and major children’s book distributors.LOOK inside! Science and humor; about 110 pages; 1,150 read-aloud words (more with recipes) by best-selling author and college media instructor Karl Beckstrand; don’t miss his 60 picture books; illustrations by John Collado, Jeff Faerber, Zanara, and Luis F. Sanz.An ideal gift for a girl or boy. Homeschool (differentiation for mixed level classrooms). Also available as individual 8”x10” children’s/Spanish language books. No AI. No CRT, gender, or orientation spiel—just happy multicultural family time! ESL/ELL/ESOL/ESE; JUV032170, JUV009000, JUV050000, JUV054000, JUV036010, JUV011010, JUV020000, JUV033190; 5BP-US-C, YBG, JNTS; (eISBN: 978-1311211026), ISBN: 979-8840381977
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Author Bio:
College media instructor Karl W. Beckstrand is the best-selling author/illustrator of more than thirty multicultural/multilingual titles (60 ebooks—reviews by Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, The Horn Book, and School Library Journal). Raised in San Jose, California, he has lived abroad and earned a B.A. in journalism, an M.A. in international relations & conflict resolution, and a broadcast & film certificate. Since 2004, he has run Premio Publishing. He’s won multiple publishing awards, including a 2025 Global Book Award for nonfiction and an International Book Award for his Y.A. western novel, To Swallow the Earth. Beckstrand loves volleyball and singing (in rock bands or choirs). His Y.A. stories, ebook mysteries, immigrant biographies, self-help, Spanish/bilingual, and STEM books feature ethnic characters—and usually end with a twist.