| The Dancing Flamingos of Lake Chimichanga: Silly Birds Contributor(s): Beckstrand, Karl (Author), Mark, Alicia (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1951599039 ISBN-13: 9781951599034 Publisher: Premio Publishing & Gozo Books OUR PRICE: $23.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Animals - Birds - Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts - Dance - Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation - Water Sports |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 8.5" W x 8.5" (0.65 lbs) 26 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Wonderfully silly" - Amy's Bookshelf Reviews. Quirky birds with a zest for life, revel, feast, and dance on the shores of a shimmering lake (laughter and fun for ages 3 - 6, preschool to first grade). - Counting activity - Tongue twisters - Learn dances & foods - Laughs & online secrets - Dyslexic-friendly type "Pink birds on a walk, pink flocks in pink socks...Diving, dipping, drinking, dripping, flying, falling, flailing, flipping...Strutting, swaying, swooping, sunning, synchronized swimming-they shimmy-it's stunning." 5 glowing Amazon Vine Voice reviews. Kids love finding and counting the animals, dances, and foods-plus the online extras. Read-aloud flamingo picture book has 350 words in dyslexic-friendly font by award-winning author and media professor Karl Beckstrand (Ma MacDonald Flees the Farm--see 60] multicultural books--click Karl Beckstrand above), illustrated by Ashley Sanborn (Polar Bear Bowler and If Cancer Was a Fish). The perfect length book for kids (not too long for adults): 24 pages. Get this children's ornithology/bird book-- #2 in the Food Books for Children series (stand alone. Other titles: Bad Bananas: A Story Cookbook for Kids and Grow: How We Get Food from Our Garden). 8.5"x 8.5", full-color children's book/nursery rhyme; Premio Publishing & Gozo Books (worldwide rights (c) Sept. 2015) PremioBooks and libraries. LCCN: 2015947081, JUV031020, JUV002040, JUV054000, JUV009030, JUV019000, hard ISBN: 978-1951599034, soft ISBN: 978-1512161786 (ebook ISBN: 978-1310478215) |
Contributor Bio(s): Beckstrand, Karl: - Media professor Karl Beckstrand is the bestselling and award-winning author/illustrator of 22 multicultural/multilingual books and more than 60 ebook titles (reviews by Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, School Library Journal, The Horn Book's blog, ForeWord Reviews). Raised in San Jose, CA (he knows the secret to peeling avocados), 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. His survival western, To Swallow the Earth, won a 2016 International Book Award. Beckstrand has presented to Taiwan's Global Leadership for Youth, city and state governments, festivals, and schools. His nationally lauded Y.A. stories, ebook mysteries, nonfiction, Spanish/bilingual/ESL, wordless, career, and STEM books feature ethnically diverse characters-and usually end with a twist. His work has appeared in: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Costco, Deseret Book, Follett, iBooks, Ingram, Papercrafts Magazine, Target.com, The U.S. Congressional Record, Walmart.com, FB, Twitter, https: //KarlBeckstrand.com |