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blog-karl · 6 months

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Multi-nation Gifts

We are pleased that Brazilian educational giant, Árvore now offers our multicultural/multilingual content in schools across that huge nation! See who else distributes our books and lesson plans (below). **There’s still time to get our 225 multicultural book products at pre-inflation prices: Order by Oct. 25—before our prices go up. KidsWorldBooks prices always beat Amazon’s—plus every book…

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#audio book #education #educational book #family time #food books #holiday gift #kids books #multicultural children&039;s books #mystery #read online #school #spanish books for kids #spanish-english book #sports book

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blog-karl · 9 months

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New Site, Books & Press

We’ve renamed our site! KidsWorldBooks.com is the new place to find kids’ books with black, white, Asian, Islander, First Nations/Native American, and Hispanic characters! Please explore our new products (mostly book bundles, ebooks, and lesson plans—teachers: see below). Every purchase gets you a free ebook or lesson plan. Sign up for more free ebooks/lesson plans—and leave comments/stars on…

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blog-karl · 1 year

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Why Children’s Books Need Variety, Diversity & Fun

As PremioBooks.com enters its nineteenth year of educational book publishing, we thought it would be good to justify our existence. Not only do our award-winning, best-selling books feature Hispanic, Asian, black, white, Filipino, Indian, Pacific Islander, and Native American characters, they have been lauded by Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, The Horn Book, and School Library Journal. A quick…

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#bedime stories #bilingual children&039;s book #children&039;s mystery #childrens book in spanish #childrens cookbook #childrens gift #childrens nonfiction #diverse childrens book #education #family time #kids books #multicultural children&039;s books #nonfiction for kids #publishing #Spanish children&039;s books #sports books #stem books #wordless books

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blog-karl · 2 years

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An Important Post for Parents & Teens

This is a post for parents and teens

Please see https://premiobooks.com/blog

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#christian relationships #family #family relationships #family time #LGBT #publishing #sexuality and faith

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blog-karl · 2 years

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Holiday & Birthday Gift Ideas

We have multicultural gift books for kids and adults for just about any occasion (they include black, white, Asian, Islander, Native American Indian & Hispanic characters): New Year’s Eve/Day……Arriba Up, Abajo Down at the (beach) Boardwalk: A Picture Book of Opposites (fireworks, food, and theme park fun!) Birthday……Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words (praised by Publisher’s Weekly) / To…

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blog-karl · 2 years

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Our Bestselling Children’s Books

Over 18 years of publishing, we know which of our diverse picture books is the standout bestseller overall; but until this year, we could never predict which of our new titles would become popular. Despite meticulously tracking sales and marketing, we were always surprised by which book became a favorite in any given year. Of course, we think all of our multicultural kids’ books are…

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#animals #bestselling children&039;s books #education #family #family time #literature #multicultural kids&039;s books #publishing #school #Spanish children&039;s books #writing

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blog-karl · 3 years

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Children's Biographies & Co-authoring with Dead Writers

Children’s Biographies & Co-authoring with Dead Writers

I’ve completed my third collaborative work and—again—I didn’t have any drama with my co-author, never have (probably doesn’t hurt that I’ve only worked with dead writers!). Last month I released the third title in my Young American Immigrants nonfiction picture book series for kids, Agnes’s Rescue: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl. It’s about my Scottish-Irish great-great-grandmother Agnes…

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blog-karl · 3 years

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Wordless Golf Book a 'Hole in Fun'

Wordless Golf Book a ‘Hole in Fun’

Picture book cements vocabulary as kids tell the story MIDVALE, Utah – Sometimes kids want to tell the story. Today they can — guided by author and media professor Karl Beckstrand’s concepts and art by Jordan C. Brun. Beckstrand’s 23rd book, “Gopher Golf: A Wordless Picture Book,” depicts the joy — and trials — a couple of gophers feel while golfing (with help from other critters). “Children…

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blog-karl · 3 years

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Blog Tour & Giveaway

Grow! How We Get Food from Our Garden (Food Books for Kids, Book 3) Free on Kindle Unlimited (or $2.99 for ebook) by Karl Beckstrand, Genre: Children’s Book. Opened at #1 in five categories.

A black child and grandfather till, plant, and harvest fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs, and grains in a colorful picture book. This tongue twister for children ages 4 – 7 (preschool – 2nd grade)…

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blog-karl · 4 years

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Exciting Diverse Books in the Works

Exciting Diverse Children's Books in the Works

As publishers in perhaps the most competitive genre there is (children’s books), we seek to make our offerings stand out from the average kid’s book with multicultural and biracial characters, online secrets/bonus material, and language or STEM learning disguised as entertaining/humorous stories with (typically) twisted or surprise endings.

We have been gratified that our picture books continue…

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blog-karl · 4 years

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Seeing Each Other via Books

Keynote address given by publisher Karl Beckstrand to the Utah Educational Library Media Association, Weber State University, 6 March 2020

How important is it that kids see themselves in books?

I’m no childhood development expert; I hope you can look past any incorrect terminology I may use and hear what I hope to convey regarding inclusion.

I was raised in paradise. San Jose, California was…

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blog-karl · 4 years

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New YA Sci-fi, Fantasy, Curricula & Reference Books

Last year, I surprised myself by creating 17 new multicultural products. This year I got help from amazing authors—and am pleased to announce that Premio Publishing & Gozo Books now offers Young Adult Science Fiction, Y.A. Fantasy, Middle-grade, Reference, and Curricula titles. These are in addition to our Spanish-English picture books with pronunciation guide, e-book mysteries for kids,…

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#authors #bi-racial #books #culture #diverse book #ebook #education #family time #fiction #kids books #lesson plans #paranormal #physical challenges #publishing #reference book #school #students #teaching #writing

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blog-karl · 4 years

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How Many??

I’ve finished creating my 2020 multicultural children’s books catalog. I really thought I’d been a slacker in 2019, but—HOLY GUACAMOLE—turns out, I created 17 new products this year (for a total of 130 since 2004)!

Publishing sure has changed! It used to be that getting books to readers required the vast resources of a major publishing house. Today, technology has almost leveled the playing…

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blog-karl · 4 years

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No Time to Read? Get Western Thrills on Audio

Audiobook sales have jumped 37 percent since 2017, according to the Association of American Publishers. Now busy people can hear an award winning western thriller while on the go. To Swallow the Earth, the novel I co-wrote with my grandfather (and which won an International Book Award), has been available in paperback and e-book formats for a couple of years. Now it transports busy listeners to…

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blog-karl · 5 years

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Multicultural Mystery Book Teaches Prepositions in English and Spanish

My 22nd book, It Came from under the High Chair: A Mystery, almost never got published. I thought the concept of a monster made of spilled food might be too disgusting. Then I saw all those best-selling bathroom/gross humor books and figured the world was ready for my 20-year-old idea. Plus, it’s educational.

LANGUAGE LEARNING

I think kids don’t mind learning if they are being entertained. This…

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blog-karl · 5 years

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Family Stories As Multicultural Kid’s Books!

My mom was an avid genealogist. As a child I found the dry dates and names boring (and I certainly didn’t want to look for them on ancient microfilm reader machines!).

But in 2007, a publisher asked me to write a children’s picture book about an immigrant child. I remembered that my great-great aunt had immigrated as a ten year old from Sweden and had a remarkable experience when she arrived. Her…

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blog-karl · 6 years

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Funny Mysteries *One Free* & Halloween Costume Ideas

It seems I’m not alone in having trouble sleeping. As a child I experienced frightening bumps in the night—and an active imagination. Some of my experiences were comical (or, at least, became comical with the passage of time) like being too exhausted to sleep, mosquitoes that buzz the ear before dining, creaking pipes, and bizarre or bad dreams.

Lately I’m kept awake more from restless legs or an…

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#animals #awake #bilingual children&039;s book #characters of color #children&039;s mysteries #culture #dogs #education #family safe #family time #funny kids #halloween costume ideas #insomnia #kids books #picture book #spanish books for kids #trouble sleeping #young readers

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