Hen&ink Coop: Whitney Stewart

About Whitney Stewart

Whitney Stewart published her first award-winning biography after interviewing the Dalai Lama in India. She’s trekked with Sir Edmund Hillary in Nepal, interviewed Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, and traveled to China to write about Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong. She is the author of multiple nonfiction books for children. When Whitney is not writing, she teaches Mindfulness. Her newest releases are Mindful Kids:50 Mindfulness Activities for Kindness, Focus, and Calm (Barefoot Books); What Do You Celebrate? Holidays and Festivals Around the World (Sterling); Mindful Tots:Tummy Ride; Mindful Tots:Loving Kindness (Barefoot Books); and Mindfulness and Meditation:Handling Life with a Calm and Focused Mind (Lerner).

Get in touch:

Homepage: www.whitneystewart.com

Blog: whitneystewart.com/news/

Titles by Whitney Stewart

Mindful Kids: 50 Mindfulness Activities for Kindness, Focus, and Calm

Barefoot Books

(October 1, 2017)

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Who Was Walt Disney?

Grosset & Dunlap

(April 16, 2009)

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A Catfish Tale: A Bayou Story of the Fisherman and His Wife

Albert Whitman & Company

(March 1, 2014)

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Meditation Is an Open Sky: Mindfulness for Kids

Albert Whitman & Company

(March 1, 2015)

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What's On Your Plate? Exploring the World of Food

Sterling

(March 13, 2018)

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Mindful Me: Mindfulness and Meditation for Kids

Albert Whitman

(April 3, 2018)

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Mindful Me Activity Books

Albert Whitman

(April 3, 2018)

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What Do You Celebrate?

Sterling

(March 5, 2019)

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Mindful Tots: Tummy Ride

Barefoot Books

(April 30, 2019)

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Mindful Tots: Loving Kindness

Barefoot Books

(April 30, 2019)

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Mindfulness and Meditation: Handling Life with a Calm and Focused Mind

Lerner

(August 6, 2019)

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Hen&inkblots: Posts

Ah touloulou, if that ain’t the easiest thing to do: Taking Your P’s to the 4th Annual New Orleans Children’s Book Festival

December 3, 2013

Thousands of New Orleans kids took their parents out to the children’s book festival at Latter Library on Saturday November … Continue reading Ah touloulou, if that ain’t the easiest thing to do: Taking Your P’s to the 4th Annual New Orleans Children’s Book Festival

Speaking the Fleeting Moment: The Gathering KeystoneCollege

July 30, 2013

Diane Ackerman, author of such books as The Zookeeper’s Wife, A Natural History of the Senses, and One Hundred Names … Continue reading Speaking the Fleeting Moment: The Gathering KeystoneCollege

Meditative Moments

December 7, 2011

I wake up to a rare New Orleans day without heat or humidity. The bougainvillea blooms bright orange in my … Continue reading Meditative Moments