Sign-In
Cart
How We Make the World: A Simple Guide to Thinking, Breathing, and Creating
Hardcover
General Juvenile NonfictionSelf Help
Publisher Price: $18.99
Publisher: Two Acres
Published: Dec 13 2025
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
How We Make the World is a simple, powerful guide that helps children understand how their thoughts, emotions, and choices shape the world around them. Written for ages 7-12, this book teaches emotional intelligence and self-awareness in a way that feels natural, encouraging, and easy to understand.
Children learn that their attention works like a flashlight-whatever they focus on becomes brighter. They discover how their breath can calm their minds, how their feelings are messages instead of problems, and how curiosity makes the world bigger and more exciting. Through clear explanations and friendly examples, young readers explore how thoughts, meanings, and emotions affect the choices they make every day.
Each chapter gives children practical tools they can use at home, at school, or with friends:
- how to notice and direct their attention
- how to use breath to stay calm
- how to understand their feelings without being overwhelmed
- how to shrink fear and grow courage
- how to think clearly when emotions are strong
- how kindness and honesty improve relationships
- how small choices build habits, and habits build character
The book shows children that they are always creating something-through their words, decisions, attitudes, and intentions. It encourages them to take ownership of their inner world so they can build a healthier outer world.
Perfect for classrooms, homeschooling, therapy settings, and family reading, How We Make the World gives kids the emotional tools they need to feel confident, steady, and capable as they grow. It teaches them that they don't need to be perfect-they only need to learn, breathe, try again, and keep growing.
This gentle and inspiring book helps children understand one of life's most important truths:
The world you build inside becomes the world you shape outside.
Also from
Rice, C.
The Cancer Connection: What They Don't Want You to Know About Parasites, Thoughts, and Healing.
Rice, C.
Paperback
How We Shape the World: Thinking Clearly, Breathing Steadily, Creating Intentionally
Rice, C.
Hardcover
Manifestation Without Karma: The Energetics of Thought, Opinion, Habit, and Desire
Rice, C.
Paperback
Also in
Self Help
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
Favilli, Elena
Cavallo, Francesca
Rebel Girls
Hardcover
You Got This!: Unleash Your Awesomeness, Find Your Path, and Change Your World
Penn, Maya S.
Hardcover
What to Do When Your Temper Flares: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Problems with Anger
Huebner, Dawn
Paperback
The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
Haidt, Jonathan
Price, Catherine
Paperback
The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
Haidt, Jonathan
Price, Catherine
Hardcover
The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs: 100+ Recipes That You'll Love to Cook and Eat
America's Test Kitchen Kids
Hardcover
The Girl's Body Book (Fifth Edition): Everything You Need to Know for a Healthy, Happy You!
Dunham, Kelli
Paperback
We Need to Talk about Cancer: An Important Book for Patients, Family, and Friends
Neon Squid
Juneja, Sanjay
Paperback
Eyes, Knees, Boundaries, Please!: My First Book about Private Parts and Consent
Playforth, Krupa Bhojani, MD
Hardcover
The Complete Baking Book for Young Chefs: 100+ Sweet and Savory Recipes That You'll Love to Bake, Share and Eat!
America's Test Kitchen Kids
Hardcover
My Bicentennial Summer: True Adventures from the Most Epic Family Road Trip of All Time
Neri, G.
Hardcover
How to Be an Awesome Toddler: 50 Easy Rhymes to Make Growing Up Exciting and Fun!
Burk, Rachelle
Hardcover
My First Mom and Daughter Journal: An Activity Book for Girls and Moms Together
Clemons, Katie
Paperback
How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn Before You're Grown Up
Newman, Catherine
Paperback
Marie's Magic Eggs: How Marie Procai Kept the Ukrainian Art of Pysanky Alive
Wallace, Sandra Neil
Hardcover
What to Do When You Worry Too Much, 2nd Edition: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety
Huebner, Dawn
Paperback
The Big Book of Birthdays: How Birthdays Are Celebrated Around the World
Feunekes, Anna Lena
Hardcover
Breathe a Rainbow (an Interactive Board Book): With 8 Calming Textures to Trace with Your Finger
Koon, Julie
Hardcover
How to Survive an Apocalypse: The End of the World Doesn't Have to Be the End of the World
Coonradt, Coby
Hardy, Cameron
Hardcover
The Girl Who Changed Little League: The True Story of Maria Pepe and Her Battle to Play Ball
Pepe, Maria
Patrick, Jean L. S.
Hardcover
Taylor & Travis Forever Ultimate Fan Edition Little Golden Book Biography: Bonus Wedding Planning Pages! Stickers!
de Las Heras, Nicole
Hardcover
How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America
Smith, Clint
Hardcover
The Boy's Body Book (Fifth Edition): Everything You Need to Know for a Healthy, Happy You!
Dunham, Kelli
Paperback
Time for Kids: Your Hot Job Field Guide: A How-To Book for Exploring Your Future Career Path
Time for Kids
Singer, Allison
Paperback
Letter Tracing and Handwriting Practice Book: Trace Letters and Numbers Workbook of the Alphabet and Sight Words, Preschool, Pre K, Kids Ages 3-5 + 5-
Trace, Jennifer L.
Press, Diverse
Paperback
The Patriots and the Pox: George Washington's Battle to Save the Continental Army
Anderson, Beth
Hardcover
Auntie Kristina's Guide to Asian American Activism
Wang, Anna Michelle
Wong, Kristina
Chao, Theodore
Hardcover
A Doctor at Heart: The Story of Groundbreaking Scientist and Teacher Vivien Thomas
Schoettler, Joan
Hardcover
André André Leon Talley--A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale
Weatherford, Carole Boston
Sanders, Rob
Hardcover
How We Love (a We Celebrate Book): A Board Book
Jefferson, Ashley
Little Feminist
Douglas, Kati
Hardcover
Fight for the Right to Read: Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the 1939 Sit-Down Strike for Library Reading Equality
Green, Michelle Y.
Gottesfeld, Jeff
Hardcover
A Supreme Friendship: The Unlikely Bond Between Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia
Murphy, Debbie Rovin
Hardcover
A Place to Dance: How Richard Lamberty Brought Change to the Ballroom
Rosswood, Eric
Lamberty, Richard
Hardcover
Private Parts are Private: Learning private parts are private and what to do if touched inappropriately
Sanders, Jayneen
Paperback
Indestructibles (the Original): Sesame Street: Let's Take a Bath!: Chew Proof - Rip Proof - Nontoxic - 100% Washable (Book for Babies, Newborn Books,
Pixton, Amy
Sesame Street
Paperback
When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief
Heegaard, Marge Eaton
Paperback
The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II (Scholastic Focus)
Fleming, Candace
Hardcover
The Feelings Activity Book for Toddlers: 50 Fun Activities to Identify, Understand, and Manage Big Feelings
Spensley, Stacy
Paperback
Indestructibles (the Original): Al Bebé Le Encanta La Biblioteca/Baby Loves the Library
Workman Publishing
Paperback
This Skirt Won't Work!: How Women Athletes Changed Their Clothes and Changed the Game​
Cooper, Jennifer
Hardcover
Friedel and Gina: A True Story of Sisterhood and Survival During the Holocaust
Dronfield, Jeremy
Hardcover
A Smart Girl's Guide: Friendship Troubles: Dealing with Fights, Being Left Out & the Whole Popularity Thing
Kelley Criswell, Patti
Paperback
Radiant Ramadan (an Our Neighborhood Series Board Book for Toddlers Celebrating Islam)
Abbas, Marzieh
Hardcover
Game Plan: Level Up Your Mindset. Own Your Future.
Humphrey, Jake
Hughes, Damian
Millar, Oscar
Paperback