The Spaces In Between
Finding Mindful Moments Anywhere
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- £4.49
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- £4.49
Publisher Description
Traffic! Road works! Ambulances! Where do you go when the hustle and bustle of the city gets too much?
The Spaces In Between weaves between the busy lives of several children who are all seeking secret spaces where they can go to find peace and quiet.
With themes of anxiety, fear, kindness and joy, join the children over the course of one day, and explore how each of them copes with their emotions. From the warm embrace of a loved one, finding joy by splashing through puddles, and feeling the crunch of autumn leaves on the pavement, this book is full of ideas on how to find calming spaces in the middle of the hubbub.
Tips and suggestions at the back of the book are full of ideas that are accessible to all children, wherever they are in the world.
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A child learns how to find and inhabit quiet moments amid the press of metropolitan life in this uneven picture book exploration of mindfulness. Addressed to the reader, bustling pages offer rhyming suggestions for handling various feelings wrought by a city: seek out "the secret places no one else has seen... special spaces that can help quiet your mind." While many are familiar—a local library, a park—suggestions including museum visits and sitting inside "a zooming city bus" purport other ways "to escape the chaos and the fuss." Though some recommended high-traffic spaces could easily lend themselves to sensory overload, useful advice from Kaur involves experiencing and observing. Thapp's colorblock illustrations depict a large-eyed child with close-cropped bangs and brown skin investigating the variously diverse city with a caretaker. A concluding note lays the foundation for a meditative practice. Ages 4–7.
