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Kids hold their breath. They love balloons and kites. They might also like this book about air.
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Published: Mar 08, 2016
How’s this for perfect timing: a children’s book about air, published on International Women’s Day by Maya Ajmera, President and CEO of Society for Science & the Public, and Dominique Browning, co-founder of Moms Clean Air Force, with a foreword by mega-mom Julianne Moore. “Every Breath We Take: A Book About Air” is written for 4-to-8 year- olds who are full of questions about everything. And this 32-page book, with terrific photographs of kids playing, investigating and just breathing, celebrates the importance of air (“You can hug yourself and feel the air moving in and out”), pounds home the need for clean air (“Dirty air can make us sick”) and offers an almost spiritual conclusion (“Clean air is like love. It’s invisible, but it makes life better.”) — it’s one more reason I wish my daughter could be small again. [To buy the book from Amazon, click here. For the Kindle edition, click here.]
