The Ice Veil Tales, Volume One

De: Ora Munter

Narrado por: Joanie Jacobson

Emotional intelligence for kids!

Ice Veil Tales are a series of 11 fantasy stories about a young Drama Queen who magically becomes a Peace Queen capable of outsmarting bullies. Her secret weapon is the power of choice. Each time a bully attacks she reacts with gloom and doom. When she chooses to feel peace instead, she blooms and brilliantly saves herself.

Transforming from a victim into a victor is as simple as Mindful Breathing. It teaches kids how to calm themselves and use their common sense.

Give your children the tools they need to prevent the traumas bullies often cause.

Ice Veil Tales have been endorsed by: Diana Winston, Director of Educations at UCLA's Mindfulness Awareness Research Center; Helene Cameron, Principal at LAUSD; Paul Grossman, MD/Psychiatrist; Cedar Koons, MSW, LCSW; Giselle Jones, MSW; and many teachers, parents, and kids.

For reviews, About the Author, a FREE puppet show video of Book One, and a FREE download of BLOOM Diary, which helps kids discover their own secret weapon, please visit www.IceVeilTales.com.

Ice Veil Tales are available in several formats; eBook, Illustrated paper back, Story & Coloring Book, and an audio book.

©2009 Ora Munter (P)2015 Ora Munter

Reseñas de la Crítica

"This fascinating material imparts wisdom to pre-latency children (5-8 years old). But it speaks to the unconscious, which is quite an achievement." (Dr. Paul Grossman, psychiatrist)

"Fantastic! So creative and what a wonderful way to educate kids about Mindfulness. I was so impressed I shared The Ice Veil Tales with several colleagues. And they all agreed!" (Danise Lehrer, L.Ac., L.C.S.W. Instructor of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy)

"The Ice Veil Tales teach children an essential truth: that you can manage your emotions and stay centered even in difficult situations. Bravo to Munter for bringing this message for kids in such a compelling and creative way!" (Cedar Koons, MSW, LISW)

This book changed my daughter's life!

My daughter loved the FREE Ice Veil Tales puppet show video of the first story and insisted on hearing the rest of the stories in the series. Then I read the previous listener's review and hesitated. But I figured I would stop the audio book if it got weird. Maybe Munter cut the last story as the reviewer suggested. In any case, there was nothing weird. We both found the stories clever, imaginative and entertaining. 


Performance of Joanie Jacobson:

Wonderful and engaging. She captured each character. 


Additional comments:

My daughter got the message and I noticed a big change in her. She now has more confidence and self-respect and bullies don't attack her. I highly recommended it!

Excellent book to help talk about uncomfortable feelings.

You have no idea how timely and helpful your audio was for my daughter.

A few months ago she experienced a very scary event. Once a week she attends a nature school in the forest and during a windstorm In October a tree fell on one of her classmates. The girl is now fine but it cracked her skull and broke her leg.

Needless to say this was a traumatic event for her and her friends. The unfortunate result is that she Is now scared of trees. Not ideal as we live in a forest.

We are now seeking professional support to help her move through this fear and doing our best to deal with this situation.

Your audio series has been a wonderful help. It has served as a springboard to help us talk about breathing, trusting and going within when things feel scary.

I can’t thank you enough and can’t help but feel this was a gift at the most perfect time.

I hope many more children will have access to it and can be helped, especially in a time like this when the world can feel so scary.

Feeling grateful and sending lots of love!

Vapid and Confusing

What disappointed you about The Ice Veil Tales, Volume One?

This set of stories was supposed to somehow help children find their "inner sense", yet it created a trail of confusing characters, an empty moral lesson, and cutesy writing that sometime rhymed. "Inhale, exhale, and trust in the ice veil" was the mantra. The characters never solved their own problems; they were just magically fixed after breathing and believing in some sort of symbol. Was this a religious story? The first couple of times it happened in the story, I just assumed the author was building the mechanics of the theme. By the third time, I realized it was a vapid mantra woven in to a story that held about as much water as the ice veil. The great finale of the girl somehow pulling herself out of a hypothermia induced coma was laughable. My child's favorite part was, "chocolate. I want to eat chocolate."

What was most disappointing about Ora Munter’s story?

The cute character names were a distraction and the story flowed poorly. Perhaps the written/illustrated version flows better. My child kept asking me who was a character that suddenly popped in to the story. Also, the theme to mindfulness just fell short.

What about Joanie Jacobson’s performance did you like?

Considering how mind numbing the story was, the reader did an excellent job.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Ice Veil Tales, Volume One?

I definitely would have cut out the whole last section where the mom wants to kill her daughter. How did the story go from ice-cream themed characters flying through space to a mother wanting her daughter to die because she wasn't pretty enough?

Any additional comments?

I thought my 6 year would enjoy hearing a good story about believing in oneself and having kindness and respect for others. Instead, we went through what felt liked some sort of drug induced adventure. I could not wait for the story to end.