About Big Black Seed: A Book with No Words (Stories Without Words 4):
Children tell you the story! Watch as a tortoise, cat, pigs, birds, and insects plant a mysterious black seed. What will grow as the fruit of their labors?
Kids’ vocabulary blooms as they describe events (older students can write about how seeds sprout and grow). Explore this simple gardening story for beginning readers (ages 1 – 5, Pre-K – kindergarten). It’s low stimulation for autistic children.
Build kids’ minds today! Find the animals; see where food comes from; discover hidden pictures and online SECRETS that will keep kids entertained and curious!
Bedtime peace. The perfect length book for toddlers (not too long for adults: 24 hand-crafted illustrations, 8.5″ x 8.5″; hard/soft/ebook), it’s #4 in the Stories Without Words (bedtime story/baby book) series by best-selling author-illustrator and college media instructor Karl Beckstrand (GROW: How We Get Food from Our Garden). Don’t miss his 60 multicultural books.
For the ultimate experience, get all four no-words books in a bundle (standalones)—plus free ebooks and classroom lesson plans:
Butterfly Blink: A Book Without Words
Gopher Golf: A Wordless Picture Book
Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words
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LOOK inside this kids’ book on farming, watermelon, mammals, and reptiles. School/homeschool ESL/ELL/ESOL/ESE, Fountas & Pinnell GRA: A, DRA: 1. No AI. No CRT, gender, or orientation spiel—just happy multiracial fun! LCCN; JUV033080, JUV002220, JUV050000, JNF022000, JUV029000, JUV009100, JUV009080; BR-220; YNNL, YFP, CFC, 5AX; Hard ISBN: 978-1951599249, soft ISBN: 978-1951599256
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Author Bio:
College media instructor Karl Beckstrand is the best-selling and award-winning author/illustrator of 30 multicultural/multilingual titles and more than 65 ebooks. He’s lived abroad and interned for a Massachusetts publisher and for Congress in D.C. He earned a B.A. in journalism, an M.A. in international relations and conflict resolution, and a broadcast/film certificate. He’s been a technical recruiter in Silicon Valley, a Stanford Hospital chaplain, a Spanish interpreter for Angel Flight (aviator nonprofit), and a rock band front man. He’s won multiple publishing awards, including a 2016 International Book award for his Y.A. western survival thriller, To Swallow the Earth, and his works have been lauded by Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, The Horn Book, and School Library Journal. Raised in Silicon Valley, he has 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). Since 2004, he 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, self-help, ebook mysteries, nonfiction, Spanish/bilingual, 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, Kobo, Papercrafts Magazine, Everand, Target, The U.S. Congressional Record, Walmart, and KidsWorldBooks.