Children’s Books that Promote Exercise, Yoga, and Movement This search relied on a few known titles (e.g., Barbar’s Yoga for Elephants) and
extracting subject headings from WorldCat as well as using Amazon’s recommendation feature.
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Exercise for children -- Juvenile literature. Hatha yoga for children -- Juvenile literature. Physical fitness -- Juvenile literature.
Exercise -- Juvenile literature. Yoga -- Juvenile fiction.
Physical fitness for children Juvenile literature. Stretching exercises -- Fiction.
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