This book is beautifully illustrated, and has a great storyline for little ones.
The mindfulness aspect is interesting, but I do not find it unique other than the author's mentioning of it, as in all honesty once we are fully submerged into a book are we not practising mindfulness anyway? Being caught in that moment and imagining the sounds, smells, surroundings of what is being described in the book. We are fully concentrating only on what we are reading, caught in THAT moment? So yes I'm being a bit nitpicky, but I do feel that when reading (especially childrens' stories to them - using a variety of voices and tones to best convey the story) we are perhaps encouraging and participating in mindfulness all the time without even knowing it? Just my opinion, but the story was lovely anyway :)
The mindfulness aspect is interesting, but I do not find it unique other than the author's mentioning of it, as in all honesty once we are fully submerged into a book are we not practising mindfulness anyway? Being caught in that moment and imagining the sounds, smells, surroundings of what is being described in the book. We are fully concentrating only on what we are reading, caught in THAT moment? So yes I'm being a bit nitpicky, but I do feel that when reading (especially childrens' stories to them - using a variety of voices and tones to best convey the story) we are perhaps encouraging and participating in mindfulness all the time without even knowing it? Just my opinion, but the story was lovely anyway :)