This short picture book encourages preschoolers to primary-aged children to learn how to manage their own feelings of anxiety or stress by teaching greater self-awareness and simple ways to easily calm themselves. A variety of breathing techniques and basic yoga poses are introduced through the use of rhyming text and images. The collaged illustrations feature fun photographs of children demonstrating a variety of yoga positions, each overlaid with amusing graphics of animals and nature scenes featuring trees, bird, animals, and flowers. The book also includes a two-page recap of the ten different ways that children can learn to relax, such as tree pose, ocean breath, and downward dog pose. This book would be a useful addition to a school’s social emotional learning and health resources. | Kathy Beliveau is a certified yoga instructor, has studied yoga for children, and has written two other books on this topic.

24 pp., 8 × 8", colour photographs and illustrations

Source: Association of Book Publishers of BC - BC Books for Schools (2021-2022)

Kathy Beliveau loves yoga, nature, writing, and all things that feed the soul. She has traveled extensively, sailed a third of the way around the world and now lives in a small seaside community on Vancouver Island, where she was raised and where she raised her own children. Kathy writes for children and adults, teaches yoga to all ages and presents at schools, festivals and professional development conferences.

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Julie McLaughlin is an award-winning illustrator whose work includes commissions for editorial, advertising and publishing clients from around the world. Her previous books have been nominated for several awards, and she won the 2015 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction for Why We Live Where We Live. She is the illustrator of What Animals Want in the Orca Think series and Pride Puppy! Julie grew up on the Prairies and now resides on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

 

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Jesse Holland is a professional photographer based in Victoria, British Columbia. Although Jesse has been photographing families, couples and weddings for over ten years, this is her first time photographing for a children's book.

 

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• Commended, CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens
• Commended, BC Books for BC Schools

“Fun, interactive, engaging and age-appropriate. Highly Recommended.”

CM: Canadian Review of Materials

“Beautiful photographs of children of many races are overlaid with vivid graphic illustrations of animals, movement, and nature. The combination makes this book pop with personality.”

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