Our children's books are written and illustrated by Ori Avnur, a Yoga & Meditation teacher and mentor. Ori's first interest was for movies, art and literature, this brought him to study Animation and Writing Techniques. After college, he started to teach Animation to children. Some time later, his life took a radical change and he began studying Meditation and Yoga. For almost a decade, he was under the guidance of several teachers in India and Thailand, spending those years practicing in many solitary retreats. Many of our books come from those years of inner transformation.

In 2014, he founded inspiringreads4kids.com as a way of conveying to kids the inner joy of life and natural happiness, and to teach them how to remain connected and be guided by this joy and happiness throughout their life. In the same year, he also started to help parents and kids as a mentor. ​​

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The Spirit of Our Project  and a word from the Founder

Hi everyone, welcome to Inspiring Reads for Kids. My name is Ori and I've written some of the content you'll read here on this website. This is a short introduction about the essence and the spirit behind this project for inspiring children's books. I'm also a yoga and meditation teacher. I've studied, practiced and taught both for quite some time, and actually everything began from here.

During my work with groups I had the opportunity to speak to many parents and often this question came up: ''How can we give to children harmonious and positive content that is also full of aspiration?'' Many of the parents I met were concerned about the violent content, particularly within the media, to which children are being exposed every day, and they shared that it is really hard to find good quality alternatives for their kids.

​​This subject touched me and I consider it very important, because whenever we speak about the content to which children are exposed and which is fed into them, we are actually speaking about the way in which their perception of reality is being shaped. Especially at a young age, when a child has not yet developed very strong systems of thought, and has not yet crystallized any particular way of interpreting experiences, it's extremely important to expose him or her to harmonious content that will become a healthy base from which they will shape their own reality.
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What do I mean by "harmonious content"? Well, very simply, I mean content that will help them sleep happily at night, and wake up with a smile. That will help them perceive the world that is revealed to them with joy as they open their eyes in the morning, and that will help them to see this world as a good space full of possibilities. Content that will remind them to feel the light of the sun on their face, to feel every breath, to feel every moment and to embrace this without feeling pressure, without feeling like they have to be in a rush all the time.
To the best of my understanding, this is the correct steady ground for a child to grow within and without, and in short this is the spirit from which the books on this website were written.

​​We have many picture books, eBooks and online books available to create an interesting variety for your children. Each tale from its own angle tries to bring awareness to this natural simplicity of life, to the inner light that exists in all of us. When we are in touch with that light, we regain connection with harmony, intuitive common sense and happiness.