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Inside: A Visual Journey of Mindfulness for Curious Kids Kindle Edition

4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

🌟 “Inside: A Visual Journey of Mindfulness for Curious Kids” 🌟

Help your child discover calm, confidence, and emotional resilience with this beautifully illustrated mindfulness picture book by Roxana Chitanu, known for her work on the award-winning Where’s My Joey?.

Why Choose Inside?
This engaging picture book introduces mindfulness in a way children can easily grasp:

  • 🧠 Explore the Inner World: Gentle language and vibrant illustrations guide children to understand their thoughts, feelings, and memories.
  • 🎨 Interactive Activities: Includes pages filled with mindfulness exercises and prompts, helping kids practice emotional awareness and focus.
  • 💡 Build Lifelong Skills: Develops self-awareness, empathy, and emotional resilience—tools that will serve them throughout life.

Perfect for parents, educators, and caregivers, Inside is a unique resource to help children connect with their inner selves while growing emotionally. Whether at home or in the classroom, this book offers a simple yet powerful way to introduce mindfulness concepts in a fun and relatable way.

🎁 A Gift That Lasts Beyond the Holidays
Equip your child with the tools to embrace mindfulness and self-discovery.

★★★★★
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From the Publisher

Inside explains Mindfulness in a child-friendly way, helps kids explore their inner world ages 5 10

Help your child experience the positive outcomes of practicing mindfulness

Makes learning the basics of  Mindfulness  easy, Helps develop self-awareness  and self reflection

This Book Contains Extra Pages with Mindfulness Activities

This picture book now contains extra pages with mindfulness activities, carefully curated and adapted to the book's theme and illustrations.

Mindfulness Activities Included in the Book

Matching mindfulness activity for kids thoughts feelings emotions emotional development self

Matching Activities

Identify types of thoughts, feelings and memories with this activity in the book.

mindfulness cards activity for kids thoughts feelings emotions emotional development self

Mindfulness Cards

Here are 31 prompts to practice mindfulness for every day of the month.

mindfulness art tracing activity for kids thoughts feelings emotions emotional development self

Mindfulness Art Page

Encourage Mindfulness by teaching kids patience when tracing lines to the center of the snail with this art activity.

Editorial Reviews

"I believe Roxana's book is a magical way to take big concepts, turn them into simple things and letting children then imagine how their inner world is looking."

Working with children has taught me one thing: they have this amazing ability to take simple things from outside and turn them into a wonderful inner world. I believe Roxana's book is thus a magical way to take big concepts, turn them into simple things and letting children imagine how their inner world is looking. There is nothing more important to children's development than understanding who they are and who they are becoming, starting with their thoughts and feelings and the way their body is responding to all of this. What a wonderful gift to offer to your children, read this book together and let your imagination thrive!

— Nicoleta Grigoriu - Founder & Trainer at Balansoar - Communication and Emotional Intelligence

"Kids totally engrossed in this book, captivated by the illustrations"

My kids love this book! (Ages 8 and 5) They read it cover to cover together and pored over the beautiful illustrations, finding little details on each page that I hadn’t even noticed when previewing it. The pictures really convey the concepts of thoughts, feelings, memories, and home/self so thoughtfully for kids! I can see this being one of those books we’ll read over and over. Lots to talk about while reading it

— Teresa Chi - Montessori Teacher and Music

"Great book all around. I love how the book breaks down a complex subject into a very simple idea. Well written and gorgeously illustrated. Great work!"

— Jeremy

"This is a great book to go through the basic concepts used in mindfulness training. It explains in a visual and child friendly way the utility of watching thoughts, feeling, without letting them define you or your reality."

— Cornel

About the Author

Roxana Chitanu is a professional picture book illustrator based in Italy. Originally from Romania, her favorite things to do as a child were reading and drawing in her grandparents’ library and observing the world outside — from ants and pebbles to clouds and trees. Although she put drawing on hold for a while, she slowly came back to it, realising that she wanted to tell stories through picture books. She learned the art of picture book creation, visual storytelling and illustration from various online courses and platforms. Roxana is the illustrator of the award winning picture book, Where’s my Joey?, written by Wendy M. Winter.

After the birth of her daughter, she became inspired to write as well and in 2024 she self-published her first authored and illustrated mindfulness children's book — Inside. She is still enjoying looking at the world — from ants and pebbles, clouds and trees, now with her husband and daughter by her side. Stay tuned for new picture books releases.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Working with children has taught me one thing: they have this amazing ability to take simple things from outside and turn them into a wonderful inner world. Once they understand a concept, it is them teaching us. I believe Roxana's book is thus a magical way to take big concepts, turn them into simple things and letting children then imagine how their inner world is looking, starting with the illustrations. There is nothing more important into children's development than understanding who they are and who they are becoming, starting with their thoughts and feelings and the way their body is responding to all of this. What a wonderful gift to offer to your children, read this book together and let your imagination thrive!"

Nicoleta Grigoriu - Founder & Trainer at Balansoar - Communication and Emotional Intelligence


"I love how the book breaks down a complex subject into a very simple idea. Well written and gorgeously illustrated. Great work!"

"This is a great book to go through the basic concepts used in mindfulness training. It explains in a visual and child friendly way the utility of watching thoughts, feeling, without letting them define you or your reality."

"Unique attempt to explain about the inner self to children. The illustrations were superb and in a gentle simple way explained about the thoughts, feelings and emotions inside to a child. I enjoyed looking at the illustrations. The book is meant for older children."

"The book itself, the text and the illustrations are simply gorgeous. I like how the text and images are connected and take the reader through from simple to complex."

"The book is beautifully illustrated. While my baby is too young to understand the message at the moment, she already enjoys the colourful pages and I'm definitely looking forward to the conversations this book will spark between us."

About the Author

Roxana Chitanu is a professional picture book illustrator based in Italy. Originally from Romania, her favorite things to do as a child were reading and drawing in her grandparents' library and observing the world outside - from ants and pebbles to clouds and trees. Roxana is the illustrator of the award winning picture book, "Where's my Joey?", written by Wendy M. Winter.In 2024, she self-published her first authored and illustrated mindfulness children's book - "Inside". She is still enjoying looking at the world, now with her husband and daughter by her side. Stay tuned for new picture books releases.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0D34HZXZ3
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Roxana Chitanu; 1st edition (April 30, 2024)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 30, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 33607 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Not enabled
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

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Roxana Chitanu is a Romanian children’s book author-illustrator based in Italy.

Her favorite things during childhood were reading and drawing in her grandparents’ library and observing the world outside — from ants and pebbles to clouds and trees. Although she put drawing on hold for a while, she slowly came back to it in her late 20’s and realized she wanted to tell stories through picture books. She learned the art of picture book creation, visual storytelling and illustration from various online courses and platforms.

After the birth of her daughter, she became inspired to write as well.

Inside encourages children to meditate on the self and the home that they carry with them wherever they go. The self is connected to them very much like the snail’s shell is connected to its body. Wherever they go, they are at home because they always have their self with them.

Inside falls in the category of concept children’s books as it aims to explain the concept of consciousness, or as it is named here, the “inside.” The author-illustrator hopes that this book will be a support material for the child (and parents or educators) to open up to their inside world and choose to explore it in order to become better prepared for life’s challenges, and ultimately, become more balanced human beings. This starts with something small — learning to really hear their own thoughts, feel their feelings and accept the nature of fading memories in order to appreciate the ones that stay with them.

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Top reviews from the United States

  • Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2024
    I have been following Roxana on social media for some time, because I fell in love with her art, and finally decided to get her book. It absolutely lives up to my expectations. The artwork in particular is remarkable, but the text is also tenderly written, crafted with obvious care. It is just a pure masterpiece. 5 enthusiastic stars.
  • Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2024
    My kids love this book! (Ages 8 and 5) They read it cover to cover together and pored over the beautiful illustrations, finding little details on each page that I hadn’t even noticed when previewing it. The pictures really convey the concepts of thoughts, feelings, memories, and home/self so thoughtfully for kids! I can see this being one of those books we’ll read over and over. Lots to talk about while reading it
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Kids totally engrossed in this book, captivated by the illustrations
    Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2024
    My kids love this book! (Ages 8 and 5) They read it cover to cover together and pored over the beautiful illustrations, finding little details on each page that I hadn’t even noticed when previewing it. The pictures really convey the concepts of thoughts, feelings, memories, and home/self so thoughtfully for kids! I can see this being one of those books we’ll read over and over. Lots to talk about while reading it
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2024
    What a beautiful book, the artwork is calming and I think it's a great tool for young kids (or even grown-ups) with dine big feelings to work through.
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2024
    The book itself, the text and the illustrations are simply gorgeous. I like how the text and images are connected and take the reader through from simple to complex.
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2024
    I love how the book breaks down a complex subject into a very simple idea. Well written and gorgeously illustrated. Great work!
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2024
    Such a beautiful book, the illustrations are incredible

Top reviews from other countries

  • SAKrishnan
    4.0 out of 5 stars Nice, unique book
    Reviewed in India on May 12, 2024
    Unique attempt to explain about the inner self to children. The illustrations were superb and in a gentle simple way explained about the thoughts, feelings and emotions inside to a child. I enjoyed looking at the illustrations. The book is meant for older children.
  • corina tataru
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book for your own child & as a gift
    Reviewed in Germany on May 7, 2024
    The book is super cute and beautifully illustrated. While my baby is too young to understand the message at the moment, she already enjoys the colourful pages (and I’m definitely looking forward to the conversations this little book will spark between us). A few extra copies will make it to our friends as gifts to their children.
  • Miha
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully illustrated children’s book
    Reviewed in Germany on May 6, 2024
    Lovely illustrations & messages!

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