Yummy Yoga: Playful Poses and Tasty Treats by Joy Bauer - OPTIONAL

Yummy Yoga: Playful Poses and Tasty Treats by Joy Bauer, photographs by Bonnie Stephens. PICTURE BOOK/NON-FICTION. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2019. $15. 9781419738241

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

Pairing a photograph of a child doing a particular yoga pose with a combination of healthy foods shaped in the same pose, this book covers eight basic yoga poses. One page of the spread opens up to show a recipe using the same ingredients as the food doing the yoga pose. 

The white background and simple shapes make this an easy book to read and utilize, but it is perhaps doing too much being both a yoga instruction book and a recipe book. I appreciate that the children photographed doing yoga were a variety of ethnicities and sizes.  

Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher