This week’s Roundup of Mom’s Choice Award winners features meditation and educational apps as well as tons of educational children’s picture books! Be sure to scroll through the entire list so you don’t miss any of our new award-winners! All the items you see below won a Mom’s Choice Award during January 7, 2018 to January 13, 2018.

Every week companies, inventors, and publishers from around the world send us their products for evaluation. Only the best earn our designation.

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Wuf Shanti: The Yoga Fun Machine

Wuf Shanti is an adorable dog yoga character that travels the world sharing yoga, meditation, & mindfulness with kids through fun games & music. Shanti means peace. Wuf Shanti promotes health, wellness, & happiness in children, and encourages peace and positivity. Created by a kid for other kids, this character teaches yoga and meditation in a fun way for kids to learn a mindful yogic lifestyle.

Apps & Software:
Preschoolers

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The Wuf Shanti TV Show

Wuf Shanti visits schools, yoga studios, children’s hospitals, & charitable organizations. Wuf Shanti travels to children’s hospitals around the country to visit the kids because science has shown that positive thinking can help the healing process.

Other products include books, mobile app, plushies, mantra mats, mantra t-shirts, coloring books, etc.

Viewing (Television/DVD/Blu-Ray ):
Ages 5 to 8

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The Greatest Wish
Written and illustrated by Amanda Yoshida

For reader’s, it’s all about a journey with the characters —experiencing the obstacles they face, the choices they make, the consequences, and, of course, that positive uplifting ending. The Greatest Wish not only fits the bill perfectly but also provides young readers and their parents with the imaginative genius to alter a child’s journey each time the story is visited. What would you be if you could be anything in the world? Would you be a giraffe or a dinosaur? How about a bird or a rocket? A shark or an octopus? It is up to the reader to make those decisions in Amanda Yoshida’s colorful, ever-changing story.

Children’s Picture Books:
Bedtime Stories

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Mona Lisa’s Ghost
Written by Nancy Kunhardt Lodge; Illustrated by Cover by Editorial Kolima

Mona Lisa’s Ghost is Nancy Kunhardt Lodge’s second middle grade novel, sequel to The Crystal Navigator. Lucy Nightingale solves a mystery that takes her through the Ghost-infested Catacombs under Paris, back in time to meet with Leonardo, and even into the background of the Mona Lisa itself.

Juvenile Books (Level 2 – Ages 9 to 12):
Fantasy, Myths & Legends

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Kiddopia – Early Learning Adventures

Kiddopia is an inexhaustible app that will help your child to develop and progress through all the early stages of education. Each game is designed to make learning as natural and intuitive as possible by using fun subjects and original gameplay to draw him or her into a new world that will improve rational thinking, fine motor skills, breadth of knowledge and self-expression.

Apps & Software:
Toddlers

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I See You
Written by Michael Genhart, PhD; Illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff

I See You is a wordless picture book that depicts a homeless woman who is not seen by everyone around her—except for a little boy. In a gesture of compassion, the boy acknowledges her in an exchange in which he sees her and she experiences being seen. In a “Note for Parents, Educators, and Neighbors,” there are discussion questions and additional resources about helping the homeless.

Children’s Picture Books:
Peoples, Places & Cultures

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Did You Hear?
Written by Frank J. Sileo, PhD; Illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin

While gossiping is a natural human behavior, this book uses serious and silly rumors to illustrate the concept of gossip and how it spreads, what hurtful gossip feels like, and how it can be like bullying. A “Note to Parents and Caregivers” is included that describes how gossip can have negative effects, whether intended or not, and what can be done to prevent it.

Children’s Picture Books:
Developing Social Skills

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