In "What Would He See?" Sami, a newly hatched turtle, feels a strong calling to leave his tiny dark hole in the sand. He ventures out and instantly falls in love with the ocean, knowing it is where he belongs. This story captures Sami's journey as he makes his way down the beach to the sea. He encounters distraction, danger and his own feelings of giving up and losing his way. Under the threat of almost being eaten, Sami notices his pounding heart, and is suddenly still enough to notice the sound of the ocean, which had been blurred into the background. Sami realizes he knows his way to the sea, and even when he felt lost, the ocean was there all along. Using his listening as a guide, Sami is able to navigate through beach pollution as well as his own emotions and eventually reach the ocean. Sami enters the water and realizes he was meant to swim, not crawl, and that he is powerful, graceful and happy when he is doing what he is meant to do.
This story is about activating your own internal compass in finding your way home. Written by a therapist and lover of the ocean, Sadiya Khan includes an educational guide on nurturing imagination, intuition, and communication with a child. The emotion wheel and discussion questions will stimulate important conversations. The visually powerful images were carefully designed to capture the human emotions in the journey to self-actualization. This book will speak to both adult and child and is great for anyone seeking to help children build emotional intelligence, mindfulness, mental health awareness, resilience, identity and self-awareness.