SERIES: YUKA THE RED PANDA: Adventures of a curious little light worker in search of experiences, beauty, and wisdom.
... Yuka and a friend spend the afternoon by the sea, building sandcastles, playing in the water, watching the sunset over the sea. Time flies when you're having fun. After a day on the sand, Yuka falls asleep under the stars and dreams of mandalas reflecting the colors of the day ...
This is a...
SERIES: YUKA THE RED PANDA: Adventures of a curious little light worker in search of experiences, beauty, and wisdom.
... Yuka and a friend spend the afternoon by the sea, building sandcastles, playing in the water, watching the sunset over the sea. Time flies when you're having fun. After a day on the sand, Yuka falls asleep under the stars and dreams of mandalas reflecting the colors of the day ...
This is a wordless book for toddlers, seniors and everyone in between looking to down-regulate their nervous system before going to sleep.
By Shungi Ono
Illustrations generated via Dall-E 2 & Canva
This visually stunning series, tailored for highly sensitive souls, offers moments of tranquility, simplicity and wonder. Yuka's experiences aim to soothe, relax and down-regulate the nervous system, preparing young & wise readers for bedtime while inviting them to look forward to sleep and the realm of dreams. Through mostly wordless narratives, more experienced readers are encouraged to reconnect with their inner child, weaving their own language, words, expressions, interpretations and stories appropriate to the moment, thereby fostering imagination and allowing for personalized reflections aligned with one's culture, values, and belief systems. By inviting the reader to engage their own imagination, this series also becomes an exercise, potentially guarding against or slowing down cognitive decline while simultaneously offering a profound resonance for individuals grappling with mental illness, or not, serving as a therapeutic outlet to connect with cherished memories and universal experiences. Yuka is not gender or racially defined so everyone can connect in a way that is inclusive to their own reality. If nothing else, the charm and poetry of the images will bring pleasure to anyone who is sensitive to this aesthetic and/or subject matter.
More detailed information on the series at
https: //shungitepublishing.com/pages/about-yuka-the-red-panda-series
