About the Book
"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 - 7, preschool - second grade). - Dances & foods
- Counting activity
- Tongue twisters
- 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, foods, and cultural dances-plus the online extras. Get this read-aloud flamingo picture book with 350 words in dyslexic font by award-winning author and college media instructor Karl Beckstrand (see all of Beckstrand's 60+ multicultural books), 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-page children's environment/ornithology/ballroom dance book- #2 in the Food Books for Children series (stand-alone. Other books in the series: Bad Bananas: A Story Cookbook for Kids, Grow: How We Get Food from Our Garden, Crumbs on the Stairs: A Mystery, She Doesn't Want the Worms, Ma MacDonald Flees the Farm). None of our picture books discuss gender or orientation. 8.5"x 8.5", full-color children's book/nursery rhyme; Worldwide rights (c) Sept. 2015 Premio Publishing & Gozo Books (PremioBooks), libraries, and all major distributors; LCCN: 2015947081, JUV031020, JUV002040, JUV054000, JUV009030, JUV019000, hard ISBN: 978-1951599034, soft ISBN: 978-1512161786 (ebook ISBN: 978-1310478215)
About the Author: Karl Beckstrand is the bestselling and award-winning author of 18 multicultural 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
