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Mindfulness for Kids Mindfulness helps build awareness of self, others, and the world. Sit and think with a few of these picture books.
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Breathing makes it better : a book for sad days, mad days, glad days, and all the feelings in-between
by Christopher Willard
Read aloud and breathe along with this sweet story teaching children how to navigate powerful emotions like anger, fear, sadness, confusion, anxiety, and loneliness. With rhythmic writing and engaging illustrations, Breathing Makes It Better guides children to breathe through their feelings and find calm with recurring cues to stop and take a breath. Simple guided practices, like imagining you are a tree blowing in the wind, follow each story to teach children how to apply mindfulness techniques when they need them the most.
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Charlotte and the quiet place
by Deborah Sosin
Sometimes children need a break from our noisy, overstimulating world. Charlotte and the Quiet Place shows how a child learns and practices mindful breathing on her own and experiences the beauty of silence.
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Good night yoga : a pose-by-pose bedtime story
by Mariam Gates
Presents a nightime yoga practice for young children in which they can use their imagination as they do the poses, including bending like a crescent moon, stretching like a tree, arching their back like a cat, and floating like a cloud
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I am peace : a book of mindfulness
by Susan Verde
A child starts to get carried away with worry and rushing thoughts before taking a breath, steadying, observing thoughts, feeling kindness, feeling thankful, and experiencing the world
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The lemonade hurricane : a story about mindfulness and meditation
by Licia Morelli
"Emma's little brother Henry is a good kid--but when his day has been too busy and too full, Henry can become a hurricane! Emma wishes that she could teach Henry to be still. One day, she shows Henry how meditation can make a big difference in both theirlives"
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Quiet
by Tomie DePaola
Two children and their grandfather discover that their observations of the busy world become richer as they sit quietly in the moment together
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The sound of silence
by Katrina Goldsaito
Living in the bustling, splashing, whooshing, beeping and laughing city of Tokyo, a little boy tries to experience ma, or silence, when a musician tells him it is the most beautiful sound in the world.
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You are a lion! : and other fun yoga poses
by Taeeun Yoo
A playful introduction to yoga by the award-winning illustrator of Only a Witch Can Fly features imaginative pairings of animals and children in yoga positions, in a tale that lyrically explains how yoga can promote flexibility and focus.
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