Where Beauty Blossoms

📚AGES 3 TO 8    📄28 PAGES  ·  PAPERBACK    🌍SHIPS WORLDWIDE

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Written by Swaady Martin Illustrated by Karen Ahlschlager

Ubuhle and her puppy dog Uthando are daydreaming in the sun when they meet a wise butterfly who teaches them the true meaning of beauty. A story that teaches children the meaning of self-love, healthy confidence, and the power of positive affirmations.

Included in this book

A mandala for mindful coloring — a tool for relaxation, creativity, and inner calm. Mindful coloring overrides stressful images, helps relax the thoughts, and stimulates creativity. Mandalas have long been used as a healing practice, associated with releasing negative thought patterns and alleviating stress and anxiety.

€16

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28-page illustrated paperback with mandala coloring activity
Worldwide shipping available
Available in English

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Print ISBN: 978-2-491573-04-1 · Ebook ISBN: 978-2-491573-05-8 · Size: 8.5" x 11" (280mm x 216mm) · Binding: Paperback perfect bound · Page Count: 28

FOR PARENTS

Reading this book
opens a conversation.

Where Beauty Blossoms carries themes that speak to the heart of every child's inner formation — the discovery of their own worth, the capacity to see beauty in themselves and the world around them, and the practice of stillness and presence through mindful coloring. These are conversations worth having again and again, at every age.

Conversation Starters Themes

◇ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL THEMES

Self-love · Cultivating inner beauty · Beauty in diversity · The subjective nature of beauty

◇ SPIRITUAL THEMES

The power of affirmations · The power of mindful silence · Mindful coloring as a contemplative practice

◇ CULTURAL THEMES

◆ Wabi-Sabi — the Japanese concept of beauty in imperfection

◆ Ashanti Adinkra symbols — sacred symbols of wisdom and values from Ghana

◆ Ankara fabric — the vibrant textile tradition of West Africa

◆ Mandalas — the sacred geometric patterns used across traditions for meditation and healing

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Swaady Martin

I wrote this book because I believe that one of the earliest and most important things we can give a child is a confident relationship with their own reflection — knowing their worth from the inside out, before the world has a chance to define it for them. Ubuhle's journey with the butterfly is the journey I wanted every child to take: inward, toward the beauty that was always already there.

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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Karen Ahlschlager

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

Karen Ahlschlager is a children's book illustrator based in South Africa and a PAL member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She illustrates across a diverse range of styles, from realistic to styled. In her own words about this book: Ubuhle's crown of flowers symbolises our capacity, as human beings, to create beauty around us as we walk upon the Earth — inner beauty made visible through positive thoughts, feelings, and emotions, falling like petals. This story resonates with her personally, having navigated periods of low self-esteem like so many children, and she brought that lived understanding into every illustration.

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