Mindfulness Moments for Kids: Listen Like an Elephant

by Kira Willey Narrated by Kira Willey

Overview

This mindful exercise featuring a colorful elephant helps kids feel focused, wherever they are.
 
With Listen Like an Elephant, kids learn to slow down, listen to the world around them, and focus their attention-no matter how messy life becomes. Best of all, this simple mindfulness exercise can be done anywhere: in the backseat of a car, at home, or even at a child's desk at school. 
 
Mindfulness Moments for Kids are easy-to-follow exercises kids can use to manage their bodies, breath, and emotions.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

[A] restrained approach sets this book apart in the growing realm of mindfulness books for children…. A wonderful adaptation of mindfulness practice into board-book format.” —Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

2019-11-25
Elephant loves using her big ears to notice all of the sounds around her, and readers can too!

This offering is one in a series of mindfulness practice books for children written by well-known children's yoga-and-mindfulness musician Willey. In place of a story, the vibrantly illustrated board book offers a simple and age-appropriate mindful-listening practice for children. Readers are invited to take a deep breath, still their bodies, and open up to all of the sounds around them, in all directions, up close and far away. The instructions are straightforward, asking readers, "what do you hear?" The lack of superfluous text creates an introductory mindfulness practice perfectly suited to its audience and to the adults who share it with them. The illustrated jungle animals seem to shimmer as they serenely breathe and observe what they hear. There is no judgment about the sounds one may encounter; the objective is simply to observe what is. This restrained approach sets this book apart in the growing realm of mindfulness books for children. Although there is no additional information for adults about mindful-listening practice, the text itself is simple enough for even the mindfulness novice to understand and model while reading. Like its companion, Breathe Like a Bear, this is adapted from a longer, 2017 title for preschoolers also titled Breathe Like a Bear and is one of those rare board adaptations that works for its audience.

A wonderful adaptation of mindfulness practice into board-book format. (Board book. 1-4)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940176398274
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	08/11/2020
Series:	Mindfulness Moments for Kids Series
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	916,847
Age Range:	Up to 4 Years

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