Nightlights: Stories for You to Read to Your Child by Kate Petty Paperback

Nightlights, which is designed for parents with children between the ages of 4 and 8, contains 20 narrative-based meditations. Designed to be read aloud, the meditations help children focus their minds, release their worries, believe in themselves and trust in the world around them. Special affirmations after each story/meditation help the parent draw out the story's deeper meaning, for the child's enlightenment. Each story begins with the child taking the Magic Lantern down the Enchanted Path...and discovering a whole new world. By encouraging the child to describe and elaborate upon the illustration in front of them, and then to interact with the story once it is under way, the parent draws the child into the meditation--and helps him or her tap into their innate creativity and inner calm.