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This picture book about mindfulness is absolutely beautiful. Gabi Snyder’s text is soft and soothing. It makes you want to lean in and listen. Stephanie Graegin’s lovely illustrations draw you into scene after scene of multi-cultural children and adults going about the ordinary business of their day. The experiences are at once familiar, and yet completely fresh and new, because the focus is on the sounds that one might encounter in each of those moments. I can imagine a teacher or librarian reading this book to a group of boisterous children that soon quiet with rapt attention, and I can likewise envision this story being read by a parent at bedtime, setting the stage for a new way of engaging with the world come morning. The back matter provides additional information to help readers distinguish between hearing and listening along with definitions for particular auditory experiences. A particularly strong addition for social emotional learning/SEL collections.