Dinos Don't Do Yoga
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ”
Congratulations to author Catherine Bailey and illustrator Alex Willmore on their new book, Dinos Don’t Do Yoga, that released just last week. Okay so it isn’t Crime and Punishment but a sweet fable for ages 4-8, which, at its heart, is about a fear of change. I acquired and edited this book for Sounds True—and I felt a kinship with grumpy Rex, seen below, from the moment I met him in the book’s text:
Rex feels threatened when a new dinosaur moves to town—a dinosaur named Sam who introduces everyone to yoga, clad in the cutest burnt-orange yoga outfit. In many ways, as a child, I was Rex—often scared of anything that might mess with my comfort zone. But like Rex, often a tremendous joy was on the other side of the change that I feared. And I think a lot of kids can relate to Rex’s grumpiness these days. The book is lovely. And when he opens up to the new Yogasaur and to a new way of being not only does he feel more relaxed but he’s made a new friend.
