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, free ebooks, and career classroom lesson plans: 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. Premio Publishing, worldwide rights © July. 2022), libraries, and major children’s sports book distributors. No AI or CRT. None of our multicultural kids’ books discuss 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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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.