When I Feel: Easy Yoga for Big Feelings - Hardcover

Beliveau, Kathy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1459825845 ISBN 13: 9781459825840

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

Sometimes I feel angry, so I become the sea. I breathe in deep an ocean breath and breathe out peacefully.

We may not be able to help the overwhelming feelings, but we can learn tools to help us regulate them. Practicing yoga can increase our ability to accept and mindfully manage our emotions. Yoga is known to have a positive physiological effect on practitioners of all ages and abilities.

When I Feel: Easy Yoga for Big Feelings offers effective yoga poses and breathing practices that help children embrace healthy ways of acknowledging their emotions. The rhythmic text and repetition engage young readers and support early literacy skills while the photographs layered with illustrations will show readers each pose in a playful way.

"This book pop[s] with personality.” - School Library Journal

About this title

About the Authors

Kathy Beliveau’s passion for yoga and nature shines through in her writing, presentations and workshops. She has studied yoga for children, yoga safety and is a certified yoga instructor. She is the author of The Yoga Game picture-book series (Simply Read) and co-author of the Strong Nations Yoga Cards. Kathy lives on Vancouver Island, close to nature and the sea.

Julie McLaughlin is an award-winning illustrator of numerous children's books, including Pride Puppy, Little Cloud, Plant Attack!, Breaking News and Why We Live Where We Live, winner of the 2015 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction. Her work with various editorial, advertising and publishing clients can be seen around the world. Julie grew up on the Prairies and now resides on Vancouver Island.

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.

Reviews

PreS-Gr 2—Demonstrating simple poses to help process strong emotions, this book offers children (and their adults) different ways to experience feelings when they overflow. From a tree pose to focus scattered thinking to a happy baby pose to help get the giggles out, readers can unite their bodies, breaths, and minds. 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 but can also make it visually overwhelming. The rhyming text seems forced at times and simplistic for the younger end of the target age group but is an appropriate level to support beginning readers. A spread at the end of the book provides a look at all included yoga poses and their physical/emotional benefits. Understandable and brief, these explanations are better left to adults to explain to children, given the use of words like "parasympathetic." Although this book is cute, it tries to be too many different things to too broad an audience and loses much of its impact. VERDICT With so many children's yoga books on the market, this is an additional purchase.—Kate Davis, Fort Lupton P.S.L., CO

Edition details

• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1459825845
• ISBN 13: 9781459825840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: McLaughlin Julie
• Number of pages: 32