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1) Here and now
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Anxiety and Mindfulness: Books for Kids
Mental Health Awareness Month for Kids
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
Mental Health Awareness Month for Kids
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
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Simply, lyrical text and diverse illustrations encourage children to reflect on mindfulness, identity, and connection.
2) Mindful day
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Anxiety and Mindfulness: Books for Kids
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text observe a young girl as she and her family practice mindfulness through a busy Saturday.
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Sasha loves to do everything as fast as possible, but she's stopped in her tracks when she meets Mr. Sloth. Certain they are going to best friends, Sasha takes Mr. Sloth everywhere she goes. During the big neighborhood race, Sasha is just about to win when Mr. Sloth tells her to stop. Eventually, he gets her to stop and enjoy the moment, and Sasha realizes the importance of slowing down and practicing mindfulness.
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Anxiety and Mindfulness: Books for Kids
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
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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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"Discover namaste's many meanings in a simple, lyrical text, paired with a charmingly detailed visual narrative about a little girl's kindness. What is namaste? It's found in a smile, a friendship, a celebration. It exists in silence; it can be said when you're happy or when you're feeling low. For one small girl in a bustling city, namaste ("I bow to you") is all around her as she and her mother navigate a busy marketplace--and when she returns with...
7) Outside in
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text reveal ways nature affects our everyday lives, such as providing food and clothing, and showing when to go to bed and when to get up.
8) A quiet girl
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"Mary, a young girl with a meditative disposition, finds her quiet curiosity at odds with her boisterous family. Eventually, Mary is so still that she seems to fade from her family's sight. When calling loudly for her gets no result, the family tries quiet waiting instead and find both Mary and the simple beauty in slowing down to listen to the world."--
9) Straw
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A bendy drinking straw loves to speed through life, but he learns to appreciate taking it slow with the help of a friend.
10) Wild peace
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"A mindfulness picture book about finding solace in the natural world"--
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Anxiety and Mindfulness: Books for Kids
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
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"...Meddy encourages readers to try yoga poses as he comes out of hibernation, greets the springtime, and teaches his forest friends how to mindfully get through a variety of situations. On each page, Meddy shows how to execute a pose, including downward-facing dog, tree pose, the Warrior, and more."--Amazon.com.
16) Elmer's walk
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Elmer the patchwork elephant finds many things interesting during his walk, but cannot persuade any other animals to stop and enjoy them with him.
20) The rhino suit
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A little girl feels everything too deeply and she does not know how to be okay with all the sadness she sees, so she makes a "rhino suit" to keep herself safe from pain--only to discover that inside the suit she is shutting out not only the pain, but the beauty and love in the world as well.