Meena's Mindful Moment
What's This Book About
Meena is excited to visit Dada and explore all the exciting sights and sensations of his home with him. But Meena has so much energy, it becomes a whole imaginary character she calls her hurly-burly hullabaloo. Wherever Meena goes, her hurly-burly hullabaloo goes too. Together they’re never calm, as they run and cartwheel and make a lot of noise! But when Meena makes a mess, her grandfather is there to teach her how to handle it with deep breaths and meditative poses–after all, he has a hurly-burly hullabaloo too. With playful art and engaging characters (real and imagined), this charming story all about mindfulness will be wonderfully relatable to anyone with a rambunctious hurly-burly hullabaloo of their own.
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I'm not normally big on "mindfulness" books as a category, because I feel they're often pedantic and overly moralizing, but this one pleasantly surprised me with its charming grandfather/granddaugher relationship and the hullaballoos.
I can relate to Meena with her Hullabaloo. Sometimes life feels chaotic and busy. This book is a nice reminder that we can find peace and calm, all it takes is a little practice. An unspoken message seen in the illustrations is that there are times to be a little loud with our hullabaloo, it's just about learning the right timing.
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The Creative Behind the Book
Tina Athaide was born in Uganda and grew up in London and Canada. While her family left Entebbe just prior to the expulsion, she has memories of refugee family and friends staying with them in their London home. The stories and conversations she listened to through the years became the inspiration for her book Orange for the Sunsets. Tina now lives in California with her husband, Ron, and their daughter, Isabella.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781645672869
- Publication Date
- November 30, 2021
- Publisher
- Page Street Kids
- Page Count
- 32
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 4 - 8 years
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