Our scheduled guest is Karl Beckstrand. Beckstrand is a media professional, bestselling, and award-winning author/illustrator of 25 multicultural/multilingual books and more than 60 ebook titles. His survival novel, To Swallow the Earth, won a 2016 International Book Award, and Publisher’s Weekly has lauded his multicultural kids’ books, Kirkus, The Horn Book, and School Library Journal. Raised in Silicon Valley, he has lived abroad and worked with people from all continents (except Antarctica). His work reflects cultural diversity—not only in protagonists but also in collaborators (his illustrators hail from Latin America, Europe, and Asia).
