IPNE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015 & WINNER CHILDREN'S BOOK 2015 Experience the benefits of kids yoga while learning about the signs of spring! Join Rachel as she and her adorable puppy look for signs of spring in the garden. Crawl like a caterpillar, buzz like a bee, and flutter like a butterfly. Discover spring, explore movement around the garden, and learn the colors of the rainbow. This spring in the garden picture book can be added to your preschool learning activities, mindfulness moments, play therapy story time, calm down corner, collection of garden books for preschoolers, as an anxiety relief tool, part of your movement breaks in the classroom, circle time, counseling sessions, social emotional learning activities, emotional regulation strategies, mommy me yoga, toddler yoga class, preschool yoga exercises, or kindergarten yoga breaks. Kids Yoga Stories introduce you to engaging yoga kid characters who will get your child laughing, moving, and creating. Reading is good for the mind AND body! This yoga story links several yoga poses for beginners in a specific sequence to create a coherent and meaningful yoga sequence for young children (toddlers, preschoolers, PreK, kindergarten, and 1st grade). This beautifully illustrated garden yoga book for kids includes a list of beginner yoga poses and a parent-teacher guide. Parents and caregivers can also read this children's gardening yoga book at home during transition times, after school, or at bedtime. Yoga for kids is suitable for children of all abilities, including children with autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, or other additional needs. Rachel's Day in the Garden also makes for a lovely gift if you are looking for something unique and active, while incorporating literacy. This spring yoga story for ages 3 to 6 is more than a storybook, but it’s also a unique experience for children. Help children to calm and focus, while moving their bodies and learning to read with this creative and engaging yoga poses book for kids! " Rachel's Day in the Garden is yet another one of Giselle's masterpieces that incorporate yoga sequences into superb stories that kids love. The yoga poses are easy to follow and kids LOVE that they are moving their bodies like the real things they see within the book. Since they are so engaged in the story, kids don't realize how hard they are working at strengthening and stretching their little bodies and the fabulous benefits they are giving their sensory systems. As pediatric occupational and physical therapists, we give this book two thumbs up for body boosting fun!" - Claire Heffron & Lauren Drobnjak , Founders of The Inspired Treehouse, Inc. "Shardlow has mastered the art of integrating yoga, art, education and story into engaging books that promote movement, relaxation, literacy and connection. Rachel's Day in the Garden is no exception and in fact, might be the best one yet! The Kids Yoga Stories series belongs in the hands of every child, parent and educator!" - Lisa Flynn , Founder of ChildLight Yoga and Yoga 4 Classrooms Author of Yoga for Children ; and Yoga 4 Classrooms Activity Card Deck "Giselle Shardlow has done it again! Rachel's Day in the Garden , with its sweet story line and beautiful illustrations, makes it so easy for parents and teachers to bring simple, fun yoga poses into their homes and classrooms. The lovely depictions of the garden and natural world lend themselves to singing lots of traditional songs along with the book, too: You Are My Sunshine and Rain Rain Go Away!" - Kira Willey , Musical Yogini Creator of Dance for the Sun CD and Mindful Moments for Kids CD Giselle Shardlow draws from her experiences as a teacher, traveler, mother, and yogi to write her yoga stories for kids. The purpose of her yoga books is to foster happy, healthy, and globally educated children. She lives in Boston with her husband and daughter.