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KidsWorldBooks, a division of PremioPublishing, has been delighting readers since 2004. Our award-winning YA fiction, ebook mysteries, nonfiction/biographies, Spanish language & bilingual picture books (with ESL/ELL pronunciation guide), short story, clean romance, western, wordless, and activity STEM books (astronomy, zoology, ecology) feature many cultures, and usually end with a twist. Nationally lauded (Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, ForeWord Reviews, The Horn Book, School Library Journal), our humorous educational children’s books capture attention and create repeat readers. While not about racial diversity (our only agenda is entertainment and age-appropriate learning), these full-color stories have contributors of various ethnicities and feature physically challenged characters, Black, White, Asian, Islander, Hispanic, First Nations/Native American, and mixed-race protagonists (BIPOC)—with family values like courage, sharing, and friendship. Find our wholesome books (agenda-free) via: Amazon/Kindle, Apple/iBooks, Árvore, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Biblio, Brodart,EBSCO, Everand, Follett, Gardner’s, Hertzberg/Perma-bound,Ingram, Kobo, Libraria, Library Direct, Mackin, MagicBlox, Mindworks, Odilo, OverDrive, Palace, Walmart.com, Target, and KidsWorldBooks.com (Get FREE online books, lessons, and exclusive bundles). Follow us at https://www.facebook.com/KidsWorldBooks.

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4 Seasons: Wordless Stories for Kids

Children Tell the Story. ‎Stories Without Words help children cement extant vocabulary and seek new words (older kids can write what they see in the pictures). Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words (winter), Butterfly Blink: A Book Without Words (spring), Big Black Seed: A Book with No Words (summer), Gopher Golf: A Wordless Picture Book (fall). On seasons and sports, sharing, taking turns, and fairness (for children ages 1 – 6). ISBN: 978-1951599317,  2025 release

Activity Books for Kids: Family Fun & Learning Get kid favorites: Great Cape o’ Colors: Career Costumes for Kids; Bad Bananas: A Story Cookbook for Kids; GROW: How We Get Food from Our Garden; and Bright Star, Night Star: An Astronomy Story (bound in one volume)—each with educational activity, from trying on costumes to gardening to cooking to finding constellations (multiracial for ages 4 – 9 years, Pre-K – 5th grade; 110 pages; 1,150 words, ISBN: 979-8840381977

Career Books for Kids:  With Job & Business Ideas  Explore award-winning illustrated books: The Bridge of the Golden Wood: A Parable on How to Earn a Living (selected by Vermont schools), Great Cape o’ Colors (careers, cultures, costumes); Bright Star, Night Star(for aspiring astronomers); and Ma MacDonald Flees the Farm(about a woman-owned business)—each with multicultural characters and online bonuses  for ages 4 – 15, Pre-K – 10th grade. 118 pages. ISBN: 978-1951599270

Fables & Folktales for Kids Sometimes we just need a good legend, myth, fairy tale, or nursery rhyme (it doesn’t hurt if you laugh or learn something too)! Includes It Came from Under the High Chair: A Mystery (learn prepositions); The Bridge of the Golden Wood: A Parable on How to Earn a Living; The Dancing Flamingos of Lake Chimichanga (learn music styles/dances and foods); Ma MacDonald Flees the Farm (learn animals and food dishes). For ages 2 – 8 years, preschool – 3rd grade.

Food Books for Kids: With Recipes & Finding Activities (Humor, picture book) Bestsellers: Bad Bananas: A Story Cookbook for Kids; Crumbs on the Stairs - Migas en las escaleras; Ma MacDonald Flees the Farm; and She Doesn’t Want the Worms: A Mystery—each with hidden picture finding or recipes (multicultural for children ages 4 – 11, Pre-K – 6th grade). 1,000 words 100 pg. soft ISBN: 978-1505693805

Hidden Picture Books for Kids: Food, Bugs & Finding Fun

Search and spy out food, insects, wild animals, and a monster in this collection of popular picture books: It Came from Under the High Chair: A Mystery; She Doesn’t Want the Worms; Butterfly Blink; and Ma MacDonald Flees the Farm(about a woman-owned business)—each with multicultural characters—bound in one volume for young and beginning readers; (1,500 easy to read words for ages 3 – 8, Pre-K – 3rd grade, 122 pages). These entertaining educational stories teach prepositions, insects, habitats, and food. ISBN: 978-1951599133

Mini-mysteries for Minors: Giggles, Goosebumps, Gross Ghosts & Grammar for Growing Goblins  "Crosses cultural boundaries” – M. Condon, Unite for Literacy. Get best-selling picture books: Sounds in the House, It Came from Under the High Chair, Crumbs on the Stairs, and Why Juan Can’t Sleep. Laugh! Each kids’ mystery has a counting or finding activity (bears, bugs, sounds) and features multicultural characters (for kids 2 – 8 years, preschool – 3rd grade). “Comically freaking out…suspenseful without ever getting too intense for younger readers." - Kirkus Reviews (Sounds in the House). 110 pages, 1,400 spooky words (more including Spanish); ISBN: 978-1505690187

The Millerville Mysteries (Middle grade chapter series) In the mid-1950s, strange happenings in Millerville, Kansas prompt school children to sleuth. The young detectives must outsmart adults to find clues and solve the real riddle. Book I: The Mystery of the Grinning Buddha, 31,000 words; Book II: The Mystery of the Ugly Bottle, 52,000 words; Book III: The Mystery of the Haunted Lighthouse, 35,000 words. 158 – 210 pages for ages 8 – 12, grades 3 – 7

Multicultural Bedtime Stories for Wide Awake Kids Get kid favorites: Sounds in the House – Sonidos en la casa(English-Spanish mystery); Bright Star, Night Star: An Astronomy Story; Why Juan Can’t Sleep: A Funny Mystery; The Bridge of the Golden Wood: A Parable on How to Earn a Living (selected by Vermont schools; picture books bound in one volume. ages 4 - 9 years, preschool – fourth grade, ESL/ELL/ESOL/ESE). Find constellations, comics, critters & cultures! 115 pages, 1,400 spooky words; (eISBN: 978-1311251169), ISBN: 978-1951599294

Spanish-English Books for Kids - Libros bilingües para niños: With Pronunciation Guide Best-selling bilingual picture books: Crumbs on the Stairs - Migas en las escaleras: A Mystery; She Doesn't Want the Worms - Ella no quiere los gusanos; Sounds in the House - Sonidos en la casa; It Came from Under the High Chair - Salió de debajo de la silla para comer; Arriba Up, Abajo Down; Great Cape o' Colors - Capa de colores; and 4 Spanish-English Books for Kids - 4 libros bilingües para niños—all professionally edited by native Spanish language editors. Each includes a pronunciation guide in both languages. Learn nouns, verbs, animals, opposites, prepositions, and interrogatives (question words, finding/counting; for boys/girls ages 3+/ESL, preschool & up; Easy to read & level 1 ESOL/ESE, 2,500 words, 100 illustrations). : 9780985398897, soft: 978-0977606566 

Spanish Books for Kids – 4 libros para niños: With Pronunciation Guide in English (Libros para niños, Language learning) Best-selling diverse books with pronunciation guide in English: Migas en las escaleras: Un Misterio; Ella no quiere los gusanos; Ruidos en la casa; Arriba, abajo en la playa; Capa de colores; De la silla de Iván, Salió; Boliche polar: Un cuento sin palabras y 4 libros para niños. Learn Spanish nouns, verbs, animals, opposites, and interrogatives  (question words); beginning vocabulary and finding/counting activities; actividades de búsqueda y de contar, protagonistas Hispanos (for boys/girls ages [niños] 3 – 8, Pre-K – 3rd grade); picture books with multicultural characters (hard/soft/ebook); 100 illustrations, about 1,200 words / palabras; hard ISBN: 9781732069695, soft: 978-1505671704. 

Sports Books for Kids: Individual Sports Illustrated for Beginner Readers

Get kid favorites: Polar Bear Bowler; Gopher Golf: A Wordless Picture Book; Arriba Up, Abajo Down at the Boardwalk (opposites); Great Cape o’ Colors: Career Costumes for Kids. You tell the stories and count the sports: Acrobatics/tumbling, bowling, climbing, fencing, golfing, horseback riding, extreme sports, surfing, ballroom dancing, swimming, and wrestling. Has Black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, and Pacific Islander characters; 115 full-color illustrations, 200 words for ages 2 – 7, Pre-K – 2nd grade Easy to read & level 1 ESOL/ESE. (eISBN: 978-1005232610), soft ISBN: 978-1951599171

STEM Books for Kids: Fun & Learning for Families Whether for the classroom, homeschool, or individual learning, these books entertain as they teach.  Get critically acclaimed Bad Bananas: A Story Cookbook for Kids; Bright Star, Night Star: An Astronomy Story; She Doesn’t Want the Worms: A Mystery (English & Spanish with pronunciation guide); Butterfly Blink: A Book Without Words—each with family activity: measure and make treats, find constellations, identify insects & habitats; tell/write the story (science, technology, engineering, and math books for children ages 3 – 10 years, Pre-k – 5th grade).

Stories of Immigrant Kids: True Tales of Courage and Faith

(Illustrated Biographies) Discover adventures spanning seventy years from 1856 to 1926—telling the true stories of four children, each seeking a better life: Agnes’s Rescue (Book I, Scotland/Ireland), Ida’s Witness(Book II, Sweden), Anna’s Prayer(Book III, Sweden), Samuel Sailing(Book IV, South Africa). All touch on a universal desire—the yearning for a family and a place to call home (for ages 6 – 12 years, 1st – 7th grades). 138 pages, 5,500 words. ISBN: 978-1951599362 

Tongue Twisters for Tykes: Food & Animal Humor for Kids TRY to read these funny fables out loud! Includes popular GROW: How We Get Food from Our Garden, The Dancing Flamingos of Lake Chimichanga, She Doesn’t Want the Worms - Ella no quiere los gusanos (Spanish-English pronunciation guide), and Ma MacDonald Flees the Farm (for kids ages 5 – 8 years, kindergarten – 3rd grade)—with Asian, Black, white, and Indian (from India:) characters —bound in one volume. 115 full-color pages, 1,350 words; ISBN: 978-1951599287 (eISBN: 979-8215199343) 

Trains, Travel & Transport for Tots Samuel Sailing: The True Story of an Immigrant Boy; The Bridge of the Golden Wood; Polar bear Bowler; Bright Star, Night Star; Agnes’s Rescue; Ida’s Witness; Anna’s Prayer: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl; The Dancing Flamingos of Lake Chimichanga; Arriba Up Abajo Down; Ma MacDonald Flees the Farm; and Why Juan Can’t Sleep. For ages 3 – 10 years

True Pet Stories for Kids. Muffy & Valor: A True Dog Story (children’s nonfiction); Horse & Dog Adventures in Early California; 

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Wild Animal Books for Kids: Getting Along Outside the Zoo 

Laughs! Explore popular children’s stories that emphasize cooperation and happy social relating: Ma MacDonald Flees the Farm (zoo and farm animals); The Bridge of the Golden Wood: A Parable on How to Earn a Living (selected by Vermont schools); Polar Bear Bowler; and The Dancing Flamingos of Lake Chimichanga (for ages 3 – 9, Pre-K – 4th grade, ESL/ELL/ESOL). 118 full-color pages, 1,400 read-aloud words; ISBN: 978-1951599300

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