WINNER OF IPNE CHILDREN'S BOOK 2017 Express your emotions through yoga poses for toddlers and preschoolers! Join our six yoga kids from around the world as they learn about various animals and relate their behaviors to our feelings. Be a caring koala, a cranky crocodile, or a curious cat. Visit countries around the world, learn about various animals, and talk about feelings! This beautifully illustrated feelings yoga book for toddlers and preschoolers includes a list of kids yoga poses, instructions for the yoga poses, flags from all the countries, and a parent-teacher guide. This giraffe yoga picture book can be added to your calm down corner, play therapy story time, mindfulness moments, preschool learning activities, as an anxiety relief tool, part of your brain breaks in the classroom, circle time, counseling sessions, social emotional learning activities, emotional regulation strategy, mommy and me yoga, toddler yoga class, preschool yoga class, or your yoga and wellness book collection. Kids Yoga Stories introduce you to engaging characters who will get your child laughing, moving, and creating. Reading is good for the mind AND body! This yoga book for kids links several yoga poses for beginners to create a coherent and meaningful yoga sequence for very young children (toddlers, preschoolers, PreK, and kindergarten). Parents and caregivers can also read this children's yoga book at home during transition times, after school, or at bedtime. Yoga for kids is suitable for children of all abilities, including children with autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, or other additional needs. This feelings yoga story for ages 2 to 5 is more than a storybook, but it’s also a unique experience for young children. Help children to calm and focus, while managing their big emotions with this creative and engaging yoga poses book for kids! As a father and as a kid's yoga teacher, I think this book is simply awesome. It's a wonderful voyage that invites the kids to travel around the world, to learn about several animals, and also it introduces some different emotions by addressing simple feelings. The text is simple, which is very useful when you are reading stories to kids from 2 to 5 years old, but it can be easily expanded. The yoga poses correspond with pictures, and as they are in a good order, it helps a lot with the class flow. Also, you can encourage the children to make animal noises, making the class much more fun and also letting the kids spend more time on the poses. In addition, the feelings listed in the book can give you an excellent opportunity to work with the kids the expression of their own feelings. Finally, the parent-teacher guide is a wonderful tool ify ou are a parent and you want to introduce yoga to your children, or if you´re a kids yoga teacher, it can simply be a source or a reminder of how to teach yoga to children in a properly and funny way. - Martin The Grateful Giraffe is a wonderful literacy prompt to encourage even the youngest children to communicate about their feelings. It's beautifully illustrated, and the corresponding pictures of the yoga poses are great visuals to support the mind-body connection. The text is simple, but provides the perfect starting point for both adults and children to be creative in deciding how to integrate music or props to extend the story and the yoga poses. The parent-teacher guide at the end is also a helpful tool for those who don't necessarily have a background in yoga or teaching. The Grateful Giraffe is another great resource by Giselle at Kids Yoga Stories to add to your collection! - Vicki The Grateful Giraffe is a wonderful book for you and your child. The beautiful illustrations and easy-to-follow yoga poses are a great way to help your child learn and understand different emotions. The yoga sequence is appropriate for children still developing skills and is even more fun when you incorporate the sound effects from the story. The story also includes tips for flowing between theposes and advice for parents or teachers as they guide children on the journey to understand emotions. - Sarah Giselle Shardlow has created another beautiful book that combines delightful, colorful illustrations with simple yoga poses in a smooth flow. I work with preschoolers with special needs who often have difficulty expressing and managing their emotions. This book will provide a lovely, gentle way to help them express themselves and help them understand what they are feeling. We enjoy all of Giselle's books, and I can't wait to introduce this one to my little kiddos! - Cindy This is one of my favorite Giselle Shardlow books thus far!I work with preschoolers with special needs, so books with simple, but powerfultext and vibrant illustrations are always a hit. I can think of many ways I canuse this book in my language therapy sessions, from describing emotions todiscussing animal attributes and actions to matching animals with their noises.The yoga