![]() ![]() ![]() The younger, White-presenting child follows suit when the older, brown-skinned child proposes imaginative calming techniques. Two children contemplate different ways to calm themselves down in this straightforward introduction to breathing, relaxation, and mindfulness. (This book was reviewed digitally.)Ī lyrical meditation on the magic of outdoor play that’s creditable for its back-to-nature message. There is the questionable use of a wigwamlike structure to represent a bird’s nest that the children sit inside, but most of the imagery is rooted in the flora and fauna of a woodland area. ![]() Energetic watercolor gouache illustrations show the children moving through a forest, stopping by a pond, and running alongside a river as they head to the sea before darkness falls, prompting them to return home. Using many attributive adjectives and verbs of motion, each of the text’s rhyming quatrains starts with the refrain “if we were”: “If we were rivers, we’d run, boundless and wild and free” “if we were rocks, we’d sit still,” and so on. Readers will feel compelled to imagine what it would be like to be a creek or a nest, a spring or a seed. ![]() The story follows three children-one brown-skinned, one Asian-presenting, and one White-as they envision themselves as elements in nature. An imaginative, poetic picture book invites kids into the natural world. ![]()
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