While observing the busy world around them, two children and their grandfather take a moment to appreciate being quiet and still.

"Timmy the bear awakes one morning feeling he needs to find his very own quiet place. He goes on an adventure to discover where that might be. After visiting several friends to inquire about their quiet place, he returns home. There he discovers that his quiet place is deep in the love and warmth of his home and family" -- cover, page [4]

To escape the noise of her boisterous tías, Martina imagines a peaceful island where she plays quietly with a little mouse, but when she wants to tell of her adventure, she realizes there is no one around--that is until she hears her tías in the next room.

Maisy goes to the library in search of a book about fish and a quiet place in which to read it.

"We all long for moments when we can slow down and for opportunities to be still. Life can get hectic, as we continuously hop from one thing to another. Days are often filled with too much noise, anxiety, and confusion. What do you do when the life you created isn't what you expected it to be? What can you do to slow it all down? Author Mirjam van der Vegt encourages each of us to focus on stillness and literal silence, creating space for moments...

"Illustrations and easy-to-read text encourage the reader to be still, peaceful, and calm inside while imagining using all five senses to experience nature." --

Naturally quiet since birth, Mina and her stormbeast, Pixit, lead others like themselves in defying authority and attempting to spread the truth that Alorria's idyllic weather comes at a steep cost.

The first snow of winter has fallen, and Houndsley is happy ; he loves the quiet time. Catina does not like the quiet time, and she does not enjoy being snowed in--what if their evening concert has to be canceled? But there is nothing to do but enjoy the snowy day--wherever it might take them.

"A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay 'The Joy of Quiet, ' The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug. Why would a man who seems able to go everywhere and do anything--like the international heartthrob and Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer Leonard Cohen--choose to spend years sitting still and going nowhere? What can Nowhere...