Hope and Wade King, Acclaimed Educators and Best-Selling Authors Launch New Book, "The Wild Card Kids: Journey to Magic" Available January 8, 2020
Pre-sale available NOW at Amazon.com, and HopeandWadeKing.com; Plus contest for parents and teachers who purchase before January 14th
NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Highly acclaimed educators and best-selling authors of The Wild Card: 7 Steps for an Educator's Creative Breakthrough, Hope and Wade King, will launch their follow up book, The Wild Card Kids: Journey to Magic on January 8, 2020, pre-sale is available now on Amazon.com and HopeandWadeKing.com.
The Wild Card Kids: Journey to Magic is designed to teach the soft skills students need to develop a mindset for success. In the book, five kids find a mysterious deck of cards—and are plunged into a strange new world. Maverick, Piper, Zian, Zak, and Skye must now find their way back home. They carry with them the deck's wild card, which provides both clues and challenges they must overcome on their journey. Along the way, the children have individual revelations, experience personal growth, and learn the true nature of empowerment.
The Wild Card Kids is illustrated by Mat Sadler, with a comic book aesthetic. The characters are diverse in appearance, talents and ability so that students see themselves in the book. They are all confident in some aspect of their person, but at the end of the day, each of them use lessons their teacher taught them to overcome whatever obstacles come their way.
In their first book, The Wild Card: 7 Steps for an Educator's Creative Breakthrough, Hope and Wade King helped educators draw on their authentic selves, their past experiences, personality quirks, interests, and strengths to deliver their content creatively. Educators asked for more and The Wild Card Kids: Journey to Magic was born.
Contest Details: Now through January 14th, parents and teachers who purchase The Wild Card Kids and submit proof of purchase at thewildcardkids.com will be entered to win a set of books for their class, virtual Q&A with the authors, one registration to the Get Your Teach On National Conference this summer in Orlando, FL, and $500 to use for classroom supplies or travel to the conference!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Hope and Wade King are passionate, award-winning educators who have found tremendous success with students from a variety of backgrounds by creating an environment that supports and encourages student engagement powered by academic rigor. In addition to being authors, Hope and Wade are also co-creators of the Get Your Teach On conference for educators and spearhead the worldwide Rock Your School initiative designed to bring fun, highly engaging, and rigorous lessons to thousands of classrooms each year.
Get Your Teach On (GYTO) specializes in professional development (and encouragement) for educators and administrators in the form of conferences, workshops and events. GYTO conferences are known for their passionate celebration of teachers and their ability to inspire life-long learners. Founded alongside another educator in 2016, GYTO now hosts one annual National Conference, multiple Regional Conferences, and additional spin-off conferences for a wide variety of educators and school administrators each year.
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