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""Vivid colors...maintain the attention of the very young."" - Lee Ashford for Readers' Favorite Explore this multicultural children's book of opposites and contrasts with online SECRETS, Pacific Islander and Hispanic characters, and bright illustrations for concept comprehension. Learn colors, verbs, and nouns for early readers (joy for girls and boys ages 2 - 7, preschool - 2nd grade). Discover marine animals/ecology, water sports, rides, and foods in this educational book with counting activity and parts of speech. Set in the historic Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (surf amusement park) in California, get 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! Find the seal, birds, cat, dog, ball, and wooden horse. The perfect length 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 4 Sports Books for Kids-plus free classroom lesson plans: Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words; Great Cape o' Colors: Career Costumes for Kids; Gopher Golf: A Wordless Picture Book: KidsWorldBooks (worldwide rights (c) Aug. 2012), libraries, and major book distributors. School/homeschool ESL/ELL/EFL, Easy to read & level 1 ESOL/ESE. No AI or CRT. None of our multiracial kids' books discuss gender, or orientation. LCCN: 2012912901; JNF020010, JUV009030, JUV009040, JUV054000; Lexile 220-500, (eISBN: 978-1301623037), ISBN: 978-1479168941

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Karl Beckstrand is the bestselling and award-winning author of 18 multicultural/multilingual books and more than 50 e-book titles (reviews by Kirkus, School Library Journal, The Horn Book blog, ForeWord Reviews). Raised in San Jose, CA, he has a B.A. in journalism from BYU, an M.A. in international relations from APU, and a broadcast & film certificate from Film A. Academy. Since 2004 he has run Premio Publishing. A college media instructor, Beckstrand has presented to Taiwan's Global Leadership for Youth, city and state governments, festivals, and schools. Beckstrand's nationally lauded Y.A. stories, e-book mysteries, ESL/ELL Spanish/bilingual books, nonfiction, and wordless books feature ethnically diverse characters-and usually end with a twist. His work has appeared in: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Border's Books, Costco, Deseret Book, iBooks, The Children's Miracle Network, LDS Film Festival, the U.S. Congressional Record, Papercrafts Magazine, and various broadcasts. FB, Twitter, http: //KarlBeckstrand.com, http: //PremioBooks.com

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