Whispermoss Woods and the Weather Inside

Name: Whispermoss Woods and the Weather Inside
Author: Dr. Ghazi Qureshi

Fig is a young fox with a small grey rain cloud that follows him everywhere. It turns up when a big feeling does, and it rains on him and nobody else.

The cover of Whispermoss Woods and the Weather Inside: Fig, a young fox with a green satchel, sits on a sunlit beach beside a sandcastle with a small grey rain cloud above his head.

By Dr. Ghazi Qureshi

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Fig's three stones

Three small things to do when your own stormy weather shows up. Each one is something a body can actually do, rather than a feeling a child is told to stop having.

Slow it

Breathe in for four. Breathe out for four.

Name it

What is the fact, and what is the feeling?

Hug it

Cross your arms and tap each shoulder. Left, right, left, right.

Music for reading together

Eighteen minutes of soft woodland and piano, about as long as the book takes to read aloud. Start it, put the phone down, and turn to page one. There is a breathing ring on it too, set to Fig's four-count.

Open the Listening Room

Inside the book

Forty pages, illustrated throughout. For roughly ages four to nine, and for the grown-up reading it aloud.

Fig meets Pebble, a tortoise with moss and small white flowers growing on his shell, beside a sunlit creek.

Pebble presses a smooth grey stone into Fig's paw while the grey cloud sits quietly above him.

Fig holds out his stones to Bo, a glowing lilac moth, in a moonlit clearing full of pale flowers.

Fig and Willow the duckling sit by the water with their arms crossed over their chests, doing the butterfly hug together.

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