Yoga Babies
Age 5+
Picture Storybooks
We're the Yoga Babies, look what we can do!
Fearne Cotton presents her Yoga Babies, now in a chunky board book perfect for little hands. Sometimes life is busy and tricky, but not to worry! Yoga can help everyone chill out. Follow these babies big and small as they practise new yoga poses at home, in the garden and before bedtime, then you can have a go at home, too!
Creators
Fearne Cotton is one of the UK's most in-demand TV and radio presenters. She is on Radio 2 regularly, and presents such high profile shows as Children in Need and BBC Music Awards, and along with Holly Willoughby captains a team on Celebrity Juice. She has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief and cycled the length of Britain with David Walliams and team for Sport Relief, raising over one million pounds in the process. She has her own fashion range with Very.co.uk and is the face of BaByliss.
As a busy mum of two young children, Fearne knows the time pressures on parents and kids. She's passionate about involving children and families from all backgrounds in activities that can improve their health, mental well-being and promote a lifelong love of reading, and believes that being healthy needn't be expensive, time-consuming or difficult!
Sheena Dempsey is a children's illustrator and picture book author from Cork. She has illustrated many books including Dave Pigeon written by Swapna Haddow (Faber & Faber, 2016) which was shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Book Award. Sheena now lives in London with her partner and her retired racing greyhound. She loves to write and draw characters that are bursting with fun, humour and mischief.
Reviews
Follow these chilled-out tots practising their yoga moves everywhere, from the garden to bedtime
Mail on Sunday
[Sheena Dempsey’s] artwork makes this sweet picture book featuring young children doing different yoga poses come alive… if there’s a yoga-loving mum or dad in the family, this is the perfect book for the whole household.
Irish Independent
Little ones will love spotting elements of themselves in these mini yogis… Charming verse (yes, Fearne Cotton is a natural at rhyme!) and lovely drawings.
Angels & Urchins
Sweet story… read it together and you can act out the moves!
Mother & Baby
Cotton’s lively and unpretentious rhyme is excellently paired with Dempsey’s fun and rich illustration. Those babies will have yours itiching to try downward dog
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