This was a worthwhile book about encouraging children to be more aware of their surroundings and their inner feelings. It's never a bad thing to bring that sort of awareness to children, and people tend to forget how rich an environment it is for young ones, especially having come into the world inclined to put everything in their mouth!
While that's not a great idea, especially as one grows older, that same curiosity about sight, sound and texture should not diminish as we age, but become more important in terms of staying grounded, and staying in touch with our surroundings.
Environmental awareness isn't just about safety, although a book like this can seriously help with that, and it's especially important to try to remain calm and focused in this age when we we're stressed over a pandemic disease that thanks to the appalling incompetence of leadership at the highest levels, is running unchecked through the USA, on top of racism, LGBTQIA discrimination, misogyny, as well as the poisoning of the planet and our heating of it almost to the point of no return, all of which has gone unchecked, if not exacerbated, over the last few years.
It doesn't hurt to be sensitive to what's going on in the world. It doesn't hurt to know what's going on inside ourselves either, especially when health concerns are growing. I commend this book as a worthy and educational read not just for children but for the adults who might read it to those children.
