Noticing My Body Signals: A Science Lab Adventure (Book #1)
$49.00 USD
Noticing My Body Signals is Book #1 in the My Body Signals series
More Than a Kids’ Book: An Interactive Interoception Experience
This playful, award-winning storybook and activity guide helps kids (and the adults who love them) notice and explore body signals, the inner sensations that help us understand how we feel.
Designed to be read in parts, the 78-page interactive book weaves guided experiments, reflective moments, and curiosity-based language into one ready-made resource. Purchase includes:
- 78-page full-color interactive storybook
- A bonus 45-minute on-demand course with authors Kelly and Maddie Mahler
- A bonus printable activity booklet with additional interoception learning experiments
- A bonus Letter to Families for professionals reading the book with children (e.g., a teacher sharing it in the classroom or a therapist using it in sessions). Explains the purpose of the book and provides interoception learning activities to use at home
Connecting My Body Signals (Book #2) is now available for Pre-Order. While Book #1 focuses on noticing body signals, Connecting My Body Signals explores how body signals can hold meaning and how those meanings may look different for different people.
Description
What’s Inside the Book
Noticing My Body Signals is Book #1 in the My Body Signals series.
This 78-page interactive storybook helps readers notice and explore body signals through hands-on experiments, reflection, and story-based learning. Designed to be read in parts—whatever fits attention spans or time available—each page invites readers to pause and share what they notice happening inside their bodies.
Join scientist Dr. Curious and classmates Vic, Jo, Todd, and Claire as they explore body signals connected to hands, feet, mouths, eyes, ears, hearts, brains, and more. Readers are invited to playfully experiment with their bodies while exploring what signals their bodies send in response. As the class share their discoveries, readers see body signals described in many different ways through drawings and even on a communication device: tingly, breezy, sparkly, sharp, fuzzy, jumpy, blurry, watery, tight, warm, buzzing, “too much,” “I don’t know.” Throughout the story, Dr. Curious reminds readers that there’s no wrong body signal to notice and no wrong way to experience what’s happening inside.
Blending story, science, and flexible learning experiences, the book grows alongside readers as they continue discovering new things about their body signals over time. Whether read at bedtime, during classroom reflection, or in a therapy session, Noticing My Body Signals turns reading moments into opportunities for connection and body trust.
About the My Body Signals Series
The My Body Signals series is a 3-part interactive journey through interoception, our sense of what’s happening inside our bodies.
Each book explores a different stage of interoceptive awareness through story, hands-on experiments, reflection, and curiosity-based discussion.
- Book #1: Noticing My Body Signals focuses on noticing and describing body signals.
- Book #2: Connecting My Body Signals explores what body signals might mean for each person.
- Book #3: Regulating My Body Signals (forthcoming) will explore responding to body signals with individualized supports and strategies.
While each book can be enjoyed independently, together they create a deeper journey into body awareness, self-understanding, communication, and connection.
What’s Included
So much more than a kids’ book! Each purchase includes the complete Noticing My Body Signals experience:
- 78-page full-color interactive storybook with experiments, reflection prompts, and story-based learning
- Bonus on-demand course where authors Kelly & Maddie share reading tips and the heartfelt “why” behind the book; offering a peek into the care, curiosity, and connection that shaped every page (runtime: 45 minutes)
- Bonus activity booklet (PDF) with additional interoception learning activities to extend the journey beyond the story (includes a variety of hands-on experiments and pages for recording lab notes)
- Letter to Families that can be used by professionals reading the book with children (e.g., a teacher reading the book in the classroom or a therapist reading the book during sessions). The letter explains the purpose of the story and offers two simple, practical ways families can continue exploring interoception at home through everyday moments of curiosity and connection.
Why This Book Matters
Offers a ready-to-use way for busy adults to foster interoception growth.
With interactive experiments, thoughtful prompts for reflection, and language that promotes curiosity, the interactive story supports exploring body signals. No extra prep required!
Helps adults and kids build a shared language for body signals.
Readers move past memorizing emotion words and instead discover personal, meaningful ways to describe what their bodies feel like, deepening real understanding of how they feel inside.
Honors every inner experience while modeling curiosity for adults to mirror.
Dr. Curious helps adults model affirming and compassionate curiosity, showing kids (and themselves) that all body signals are valid and personally defined.
Shows many ways to express body signals.
Readers see characters communicate their inner world through art, gestures, movement, typing, and mouth words—reminding us that interoception isn’t limited to one form of communication.
Extends and deepens learning from The Interoception Curriculum.
While a standalone resource, Book #1 aligns with Section 1 of the Curriculum, offering additional practice with noticing and describing body signals.
Brings interoception concepts to life through story.
Vic, Jo, Todd, Claire, and Dr. Curious show that every body feels differently and that not knowing or not wanting to feel is still a valid part of the body-signal experience.
Adds to inclusive, neuro-affirming practice.
The story normalizes interoceptive diversity through messages of validation and acceptance.
Who This Book Is For
Designed for adults and kids to discover together. Noticing My Body Signals creates a shared space to explore what’s happening inside. You’ll learn together, one page, pause, and experiment at a time.
It’s a valuable tool for:
- Parents and caregivers who want to understand their child’s unique inner experience.
- Therapists, educators, and counselors seeking an engaging, story-based way to bring interoception learning to life.
- Professionals using The Interoception Curriculum who want a companion resource for clients and families.
- Anyone supporting neurodivergent learners through inclusive, validating approaches to self-understanding.
- Individuals of any age who want to slow down, notice, and reconnect with their body’s signals.
Making interoception learning accessible to everyone. No matter your role, experience level, or familiarity with interoception, this book invites curiosity, reflection, and connection.
How to Use This Book
There’s no single “right” way to read Noticing My Body Signals. It’s flexible enough to fit into real life whether that’s a few pages at bedtime, circle time, or the start of a therapy session.
There’s no prep required, just curiosity.
Pause to try the experiments, reflect together, or model curiosity aloud. Each reading becomes its own moment of discovery, connection, and opportunity to build body trust.
Over time, these shared experiences help strengthen awareness, communication, and confidence in one’s own inner world.
Continue the Journey
Ready for the next step?
Connecting My Body Signals (Book #2) explores what body signals might mean for each person through curiosity, creativity, and reflection.
Through playful experiments and discussion, readers discover that the same body signal can hold different meanings for different people.
About the Authors
I’m the mom, Kelly Mahler (OT). When my daughter, Maddie, was in third grade, she came home upset after “failing” a quiz on emotions. The class had been given scenarios and asked how they would feel. When Maddie said she’d feel angry if someone she loved died, and anxious while playing tag at recess, her teacher marked both answers as wrong. Those moments stuck with her (and with me).
Now 15, Maddie has grown into a spirited, deeply feeling, and creative teen who sees the world with insight and heart. She loves volleyball and has a deep passion for corgis (the inspiration behind our family’s two corgis, Caty and Otis). Her experiences and reflections helped spark the idea for this book.
Together, we created Noticing My Body Signals after realizing how many children’s books try to tell kids what emotions should feel like. We wanted to make something that wondered instead of told; a story that celebrates inner diversity and helps readers explore their own unique body signals.
Our hope is that every child (and adult) who turns these pages feels invited to trust the body signals they notice and knows it’s okay not to have all the answers.
Additional information
| Weight | .37 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 8 × 8 × .275 in |
