Editorial Review

SLJ Review of Mindful Cooking

Cover: Mindful Cooking

Moving beyond deep breaths and yoga mats, these titles incorporate mindfulness practices into common middle grade activities like dancing and crafting. It is a clever expansion that builds on a secular understanding of mindfulness and its uses in daily activities to boost mental health.

Readers are encouraged to explore the way they think about daily activities in a deeper way, using specific applications tied to the titular activities. A range of real photographs of children in these books model the ideas present throughout.

VERDICT: These titles make a good addition to public libraries looking to expand their current mindfulness collections to include concrete applications for exploring readers.

Products Reviewed

Title   ATOS Format Qty
Cover: Mindful Cooking Mindful Cooking
Cover: Mindful Crafting Mindful Crafting
Cover: Mindful Writing Mindful Writing
Cover: The Art of Mindfulness The Art of Mindfulness (4 titles)

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