Books like Zen Shorts
By Jon J. Muth
For the kid who asks big unanswerable questions at bedtime, Stillwater offers a patient, gentle way to sit with them instead of rushing to a tidy answer. calm, contemplative, softly funny in places, unhurried
A gentle picture book imagines Cat Heaven, where beloved cats run through fields of sweet grass, play with favorite toys, and are cared for by angels who rub their noses and ears.
A sheltered prince leaves his palace, encounters suffering and death for the first time, and gives up his family and wealth to search for the truth of life — a journey that ends in enlightenment beneath a bodhi tree.
A family leaves the comfortable, familiar house they love and moves somewhere new, discovering that home is really the people you share it with.
A boy named Nikolai sets out to answer three big questions — when is the best time to do things, who is most important, and what is the right thing to do — and finds his answers by helping a stranger in need.
A picture book explores what it means to be present through everyday childhood moments — playing with friends, helping a sibling, walking on the beach — showing kids how to notice, listen, and stay in the moment.
A day in the life of family and friends unfolds from morning to night, moving from a tiny shell on the beach to the wide, darkening sunset sky.
A gentle invitation for children to notice whatever feeling shows up that day, welcome it like a visitor, and explore where and how it shows up in the body.
An elderly Plains Indian woman dies and journeys into the afterlife her people believe in, while her family carries out the customs of preparing her body and saying goodbye.
A wolf who has always lived alone atop a hill grows uneasy when a little wolf quietly settles beside him and won't leave — and slowly, warily, learns to let him stay.
A parent shares a string of tender wishes for a child — to find wonder in flying birds, to know love as vast and constant as the moon loves the sky.
A gentle picture of what heaven holds for dogs — endless fields to run in, fluffy clouds for sleeping, and biscuits no dog can resist.
A little bear can't fall asleep because he's afraid of the dark, so Big Bear tries lantern after lantern before finally showing him the moon and stars outside the cave.
