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"Track and Field is for everyone: Big or little, tall or small! Join dad and his daughter for an exciting and fun-filled day experiencing each event. Important lessons are also to be learned as dad coaches his team at a track meet. My Dad Coaches Track and Field is an imaginative introduction to track and field through the eyes of a track coach's child. From tracks event of sprinting and distance running, to jumps and throws, My Dad Coaches Track and Field explores a variety of events and introduces young readers to the sport. Young readers will learn powerful, life-long lessons of hard work, consistency, dedication and more as athletes compete in events through the imagination of a little girl with her dad at a track meet. Author Bio: TODD KLAMM is a high school teacher and coach that resides in Kansas. His passion for athletics has been life-long as he participated in a variety of sports from a young age. Now a coach of many years (Track & Field, Cross Country, Baseball), Todd developed a passion for creating a children's book when he became a father to his two children, a daughter 3.5 years of age and a son that is 6 months old. ""My goal is to create vivid, insightful and impactful ways to introduce young readers to sports from an early age. Sports have played a big role in my personal development and I hope to foster the growth of sports as a whole for future athletes."" Illustrator Bio: KAYLA PHAN is a freelance illustrator based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She has a formal education in Vietnamese studies (tourism major) and began pursuing illustration in 2017. After a short time working in the Tourism industry, she returned to her childhood dream of becoming an illustrator. Thanks to today's internet/web reach, Kayla has learned and obtained her Master's from all over the world within 3 years of online and offline short-term art classes and sharpened her skills with every project. Kayla's work is inspired by travel and observation in real life. Her paintings are influenced by classical artists such as Beatrix Potter and Garth Williams. She currently works in digital art and watercolor mediums. Kayla also worked at an in-house publisher in Vietnam for 2 years as a 2D illustrator, but now mainly focuses on her freelance career. You can find more of Kayla's work here: www.behance.net/kaylastudio If you can't see me at my studio you should know that I'm somewhere up to the mountain or down to the sea because I love to be out in nature to nourish my soul and my body. Books that I illustrated for: - Ophelia and Her Forest Friends by David Osborn - A Little Book of Poetry by Kathi Burg - A Letter from Santa: For Kids Who Have Doubts by Mary K O'Neill - You Are My Rainbow by Mary Kovacs - The Hector the Cat series by Jane L King - My Dad Coaches Track and Field by Todd Klamm"

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