About 4 Sports Books for Kids: Illustrated for Beginner Readers:
Laughter for beginner readers. Includes kid favorites: Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words; Arriba Up, Abajo Down at the Boardwalk: A Picture Book of Opposites; Gopher Golf: A Wordless Picture Book; and Great Cape o’ Colors: Career Costumes for Kids (bound in one volume) by award-winning author-illustrator and college media instructor Karl Beckstrand—don’t miss his 60 multiracial books.
You tell the stories, find the animals, and count the individual sports: Acrobatics/tumbling, bowling, climbing, fencing, golfing, horseback riding/equestrian, extreme sports, surfing, parkour, ballroom dancing, swimming, wrestling (only 200 words, plus Spanish opposites, for boys/girls ages 2 – 7 years, preschool – 2nd grade; ESL/ELL/EFL, Easy to read & level 1 ESOL/ESE; Fountas & Pinnell GRA: A – B, DRA: 1 – 2).
Explore this children’s book with black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, and Pacific Islander characters—plus online secrets, career lesson plans, and a video book trailer: KidsWorldBooks. Discover 110 full-color illustrations by Ashley Sanborn, Karl Beckstrand, Jordan C. Brun, and John Collado.
LOOK inside! 8″x10″ perfect-bound soft cover children’s learning activity/language adventure book (also an ebook); KidsWorldBooks (Premio Publishing, worldwide rights © July. 2022), libraries, schools, and all major children’s sports book distributors. None of our multicultural kids’ books discuss CRT, gender, or orientation. SPO007000, SPO016000, JUV032100, JUV032170, JUV032060, JUV032190, JUV009080, JUV032160, JUV011010, JUV011030, JUV019000, JUV033230, HUM001000, JNF013110, BUS012000; YFR, YNWD, JNTS; Library of Congress control number: 2022941518; eISBN: 978-1005232610, soft ISBN: 978-1951599171
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Author Bio:
College media instructor Karl Beckstrand is the bestselling and award-winning author/illustrator of 27 multicultural/multilingual books and more than 60 ebook titles. His survival thriller, To Swallow the Earth, won a 2016 International Book Award, and his multicultural kids’ books have been lauded by Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, The Horn Book, and School Library Journal. Raised in Silicon Valley, he has lived abroad and worked with people from all continents (except Antarctica). His work reflects cultural diversity—not only in protagonists, but in collaborators (his illustrators hail from Latin America, Europe, and Asia). Beckstrand has a B.A. in journalism from BYU, an M.A. in international relations from APUS, and a broadcast/film certificate from Film A. Academy. He teaches media at a state college and, since 2004, has run Premio Publishing. Beckstrand has presented to Taiwan’s Global Leadership for Youth, city and state governments, festivals, and schools. His Y.A. stories, ebook mysteries, nonfiction, Spanish/bilingual, wordless, career, and STEM books feature ethnically diverse characters—and usually end with a twist. His work has appeared via: Amazon, Apple/iBooks, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Costco, Deseret Book, Follett, Ingram, Papercrafts Magazine, Target.com, The U.S. Congressional Record, Walmart.com, FB, Twitter, and https://PremioBooks.com