Where Did Poppy Go
From Parallax Press
“After a grandfather dies, a father and son journey forward through seasons and time, discovering how our loved ones remain with us even after they pass on.”
From the beloved author of the Anh’s Anger Series comes a touching story of a father comforting his son after a grandfather dies. The lovely rhyme and poetry offers a heartfelt way to discuss loss and grief with a child. We see, along with the little boy of the story, how our loved ones are with us forever, in everything we do.
Beautiful watercolors carry the reader through the seasons as the father describes the cycle of life, and all of the beauty and sadness that comes with it.
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Booma Booma Boom
From Magination Press
“It’s not the thunder that’s so scary, just the way that it arrives.
It comes without a warning, and takes us by surprise.”
In lively rhyming text, a courageous boy guides his stuffed animal companions through a thunderstorm using sensory-based mindfulness to navigate his fear and find quiet within the storm. Through this soothing story, children understand that thunderstorms can also bring good things, such as calming rain and water for plants.
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Mindful Bea And The Worry Tree
From Magination Press
Bea is excited for her birthday until her anxiety interferes…
“What if my friends don’t like the games?”
“What will I do if they call me names?”
Like the fast-growing willow tree in the yard, Bea’s anxiety takes root and keeps growing and growing. She imagines all the worst possible outcomes and doesn’t think she can go through with her party. Using mindfulness techniques, she’s able to manage her anxiety in time to enjoy her party.
The Anh’s Anger Books Trilogy
Teaching Children To Navigate Difficult Emotions
The books in this three part series from Parallax Press teach mindfulness practices to children through imaginative story based fiction. These stories have been recognized by School Library Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, The New Yorker, and have received acclaim from many others as a “must have” mindfulness books for kids that provide easy to access tools to help children navigate difficult emotions.
The Anh’s Anger Books Trilogy
Teaching Children To Navigate Difficult Emotions
The books in this three part series teach mindfulness practices to children through imaginative story based fiction. These stories have been recognized by School Library Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, The New Yorker, and have received acclaim from many others as a “must have” tool to help children navigate difficult emotions.
Anh’s Anger
A regular contender on many “best mindfulness books for kids'” lists, Anh’s Anger engages from its opening pages, providing children and caregivers a concrete practice for dealing with anger and other difficult emotions. In Anh’s Anger, five-year-old Anh gets upset when his grandfather asks him to stop playing and come to the dinner table. When Anh’s feelings escalate into a tantrum, Grandfather helps Anh experience his strong emotions by suggesting that he go to his room and, “sit with his anger.” The story unfolds when Anh comes to know his anger in the first person and works through his feelings with humor and honesty to find a way to constructively release his feelings.
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Recipient of The Skipping Stones Honor Award for Multicultural Awareness.
Steps and Stones: An Anh’s Anger Story
When Anh, an easy to relate to elementary school boy, is left out at recess, his anger shows up to keep him company. Anger, personified as a red, hairy impulsive creature, has some ideas about how to best express himself, but Anh has other ideas,and is able to slow down and take his anger for a peaceful and magically transformative walk.
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Nominee for the Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book award.
Peace, Bugs, and Understanding: An Adventure in Sibling Harmony
It’s not always easy having a sibling. In this third installment of the Anh’s Anger series, Anh is all grown up and is enjoying a picnic with his daughters. Lily, the older of the two, lashes out her younger sister, Ruby who “always ruins everything.” Thanks to some preplanning on Dad’s part, Lily gets absorbed in a wonderful book, the story of her great grandfather’s encounter with a strange looking frog-like creature called Anger. The precious old journal takes us back to the final pages of Anh’s Anger, providing a launch pad for Lily to discover Metta, a technique that has helped people transform anger into kindness for thousands of years.
A Peaceful Place Inside
A compilation of yoga songs and meditations for children
Written by Yoga Child Founder, Gail Silver and performed together with Yoga Child Staff, A Peaceful Place Inside plays like a greatest hits of Yoga Child’s magical meditations, and best yoga songs. Through music and expert instruction, Gail teaches little ones how their bodies and breath can work together to calm a mood, power a train, reach outer space and grow a seed into a flower. Originally created as a teaching supplement to accompany the Yoga Child Teacher Training program, this compilation has earned some hearty awards and made its way onto some essential kid yoga play lists. Note that this 2006 release has been released in 2019 with a new cover.
AWARDS and NOMINEES:
Parents Choice Foundation Award.
Planting Seeds of Mindfulness
Looking for a way to engage your children digitally but mindfully?
Check out the film Planting Seeds of Mindfulness, an animated, live action film based upon the teachings and practices of Thich Nhat Hanh and the plum village community. Gail was honored to collaborate with the Mindful Cloud team, to spend time with her venerable teachers and to co-write this screenplay with Iulia Jolly Socea.