Take a Breath
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
An anxious baby bird who fears he’ll never learn to fly gets a lesson in mindfulness in this funny and sweetly encouraging picture book about believing in yourself.
Every morning, the birds are flapping with excitement for their first flight of the day...except for Bob. Bob doesn’t get the whole flying thing; when the other baby birds go up, up, up, he goes down, down, down. Bob can’t help worrying…what if he never learns how to fly?
His friend Crow tells him, “All you need to do is breathe, Bob.” Of course, Bob breathes all the time, but there’s breathing and then there’s B-R-E-A-T-H-I-N-G. And it might just be the thing to calm Bob’s ruffled feathers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bob, a bird who resembles a scarlet-hued soup dumpling, "can't quite fly yet," writes Rim (Happy Springtime!). When his fellow birds wing into a sky of bright blue watercolor blooms, Bob tries to stay cool ("Alrighty then. See you guys later") and keep busy: readers tag along as the minimally detailed drawings show Bob gardening, playing a little chess, and trying to get airborne, to no avail. "He starts to worry/ and begins to doubt.// Bob, in fact,/ is really freaking out," the narrator confides, until friendly Crow (handsomely rendered in smudgy black with glints of deep blue) offers Bob some been-there sympathy and a life-changing pro tip: "Take a breath." Bob almost hyperventilates on his first attempt, but then, in a keenly instructive spread, Crow walks Bob step by step ("Okay, let's first reset and shake out our feathers") through a classic deep breathing exercise. Mindful and exhilarated, Bob sprouts a tie-dyed aura and soon takes to the sky. "Sometimes you just/ have to be grounded/ before you can fly," concludes this wise and chatty tale—a lesson that may help breathe new life into stressed adults and kids alike. Ages 4–8.
