About Ups & Downs at the Boardwalk: A Picture Book of Opposites (Careers for Kids 5):
“Vivid colors…maintain the attention of the very young.” – Lee Ashford for Readers’ Favorite
A multicultural children’s book of contrasts and opposites with online secrets, a sea lion, and bright illustrations for concept comprehension (learn colors, verbs, and nouns for beginning readers; girls and boys ages 2 – 7, preschool – 2nd grade; ESL/ELL/EFL, Easy to read & level 1 ESOL/ESE).
#1 in the Sports Books for Kids series. Discover marine animals/ecology, water sports, rides, and foods in this educational book with counting activity and parts of speech. Set at the historic Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (surf amusement park) in California, this kids’ book has Pacific Islander and Hispanic characters and vivid illustrations for language comprehension. Explore this book in Spanish, bilingual, and ebook versions.
“Smile, frown, sky, and ground…. Red, yellow, blue, brown…. Leap and bound, verb and noun, sight, smell, taste, sound.”
LOOK inside! The perfect length picture book for kids (not too long for adults): 26 full-color 8″x10″ pages, 93 simple read-aloud words in verse—double for bilingual—written and illustrated by award-winning and best-selling author and college media instructor Karl Beckstrand (don’t miss his 60 books).
Get all four children’s sports books in a bundle: Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words; Great Cape o’ Colors: Career Costumes for Kids; Gopher Golf: A Wordless Picture Book; The Dancing Flamingos of Lake Chimichanga: KidsWorldBooks (Premio Publishing, worldwide rights © Aug. 2012; see classroom lesson plans), libraries, schools, and all major book distributors. None of our multiracial picture books discuss CRT, gender, or orientation. Library of Congress control number: 2012912901; JNF020010, JUV009030, JUV009040, JUV054000; Lexile 220-500, eISBN: 978-1301623037, ISBN: 978-1479168941
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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.