About Great Cape o’ Colors: Career Costumes for Kids (Careers for Kids Book 1):
“This is a magic cape!” Explore daring jobs and count cultures—or dress up! Learn some color theory with Hispanic and Black superheroes and online SECRETS.
Make a game of pretending to be the different characters (try on costumes; for boys and girls ages 3 – 7 years, Pre-K – second grade).
“Bright illustrations…excellent for teachers” – Maritza Mejia, writer/educator
#1 Careers for Kids series. Discover all four career books in a bundle—plus free ebooks and classroom lesson plans:
Bright Star, Night Star: An Astronomy Story
Ma MacDonald Flees the Farm
The Bridge of the Golden Wood: A Parable on How to Earn a Living
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Build kids’ goals today! The perfect length book for young children (not too long for adults): 28 pages. Get it in Spanish (Capa de colores) or bilingual versions with pronunciation guide, soft/hard/ebook/coloring book versions.
Bedtime peace. 100 read-aloud words in dyslexic-friendly font by award-winning author and college media instructor Karl Beckstrand (4 Spanish books for Kids—don’t miss his 60 multiracial stories); illustrated by John Collado.
LOOK inside! Halloween fun. 8.5″x8.5″ picture book. Grow-up gift book for early readers. School/homeschool ESL/ELL/EFL, easy to read & level 1 ESOL/ESE, Lexile 220-500, YRDM, 2ACB, YBG. No AI, CRT, gender, or orientation discussions—just happy multicultural fun! LCCN: 2018932695; JUV009020, JUV006000, JUV051000, JUV071000, FOR007000, JUV011010, JUV011030, JNF013020, BUS012000. Hard ISBN: 978-1732069633, soft ISBN: 978-1986733922, (eISBN: 978-1370964918)
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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.