Clear your head, calm your mind, and have fun!

Meditation isn't just for grown-ups--kids can unlock the power of stillness and inner calm with this playful guide. Learn what meditation is, where it comes from, and what it's good for with delightfully illustrated stories and fun practices. You'll build mindfulness through engaging activities, such as moving like a tightrope walker, thrilling your taste buds with sour lemon, and balancing like a flamingo. Tips for teaching these exercises to your parents and even pets allow the whole family to participate in your new meditation practice.

Meditation for Kids: How to Clear Your Head and Calm Your Mind, Laurent Dupeyrat and Johanne Bernard, Bala Kids, Paperback, 96 pages, $16.95

Laurent Dupeyrat is a graduate of La Sorbonne and Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales. He first worked as a historian, archeologist, and lecturer at universities on Asian cultures and lived and worked for twenty-five years in Asia (China, India, Nepal, Tibet), where he progressively learned various traditions of meditation. A searcher-teacher and coach for meditation for adults and children, he has been endeavoring to adapt these traditional techniques to the modern world for the past fifteen years.

Johanne Bernard is a children's book author and scriptwriter for film and television. She is an adept of meditation, traditional and modern, and collaborates with Laurent Dupeyrat to elaborate his courses. She is the author of Amazonia: La vie au coeur de la foret amazonienne (Editions de La Martiniere, 2013) and coauthor with Bertrand Piccard of L'incroyable histoire de l'avion solaire (La Martiniere Jeunesse, 2015).