Your racing train of thoughts may try to take you down the railroad tracks, but you can stay in the Meditation Station, where children ages 4-8 learn how to calm their bodies and minds.

All aboard for Meditation Station! It's time to learn how to manage our busy minds, difficult feelings, and frustrations by staying with our breath and in our body. Your train of thoughts might be racing, but you can manage it with some simple steps. Take a deep breath in, and then let the breath out slowly. That is how you will learn what meditation is all about. The next train is coming. Can you hear it chugging along? Stay in the meditation station--don't hop on the train! Just wave goodbye to your racing mind and find inner calm.

This book is a giant metaphor for calming oneself and getting in the space to meditate. However, as an adult I barely get the metaphor, so I am not sure kids will. I love the illustrations and the yoga poses by bear on the end papers. In general I like the story, it has nice rhymes and a great cadence and would be a fun read aloud for 2 or 3 but I wonder how well it would work in a 30 kid story time setting. ( )