"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).
- 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, foods, and cultural dances--plus the online extras. Get this read-aloud flamingo picture book with 350 words in dyslexic-friendly font by best-selling, award-winning author and media professor Karl Beckstrand (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-page children's ornithology/ballroom/bird book-- #2 in the Food Books for Children series (stand alone. Other books in the series: Bad Bananas: A Story Cookbook for Kids and Grow: How We Get Food from Our Garden). None of our books lecture on 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)
Author Biography:
Media professor Karl Beckstrand is the bestselling and award-winning author/illustrator of 25 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
