About Great Cape o’ Colors: Career Costumes for Kids (Careers for Kids Book 1)
“Bright illustrations…excellent for teachers.” – Maritza Mejia, writer/educator.
Explore daring jobs and count cultures—or dress up! Kids learn some color theory with Hispanic and black superhero characters and online secrets. Make a game of pretending to be the different characters (try on costumes; for girls and boys ages 3 – 7 years, preschool – second grade, ESL/ELL/EFL, easy to read & level 1 ESOL/ESE).
#1 Careers for Kids children’s book series. Discover all four career books in a bundle—plus free 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: KidsWorldBooks (Worldwide rights © July 2018), libraries, and all major book distributors.
LOOK inside! The perfect length book for young kids (not too long for adults): 28 pages. 8.5″x8.5″ full-color kids’ book. Get it in Spanish or bilingual versions with pronunciation guide, soft cover, hard cover, coloring book, or ebook versions. 100 read-aloud words—double for bilingual—in dyslexic-friendly font by best-selling, award-winning author and college media instructor Karl Beckstrand (4 Spanish books for Kids—don’t miss Beckstrand’s 60 multiracial stories); illustrated by John Collado.
Halloween fun. Grow-up/dress-up graduation gift book for emergent readers. No AI or CRT. None of our multicultural kids’ books discuss gender or orientation. LCCN: 2018932695; JUV009020, JUV006000, JUV051000, JUV071000, FOR007000, JUV011010, JUV011030, JNF013020, BUS012000; Lexile 220-500, YRDM, 2ACB, YBG. Hard ISBN: 978-1732069633, soft ISBN: 978-1986733922, eISBN: 978-1370964918
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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