LovingKindness Boma
Independent Publishing House of Mindful and Diverse picture books for children
by Swaady Martin
Beautifully illustrated stories with diverse main characters created to foster conscious values, social-emotional wellbeing and mindfulness in your children.
LovingKindness Boma is an independent publishing house that creates and sells children's books that entertain, educate and enrich the whole family.
The LovingKindness Boma platform provides resources to help cultivate a culture of love, kindness, compassion, understanding, mindfulness, introspection and self-love within the family.
Each story celebrates the diversity of the world, helps strengthen the necessary emotional life skills and values for dealing with the inevitable challenges of life.
The texts and illustrations contain social-emotional, spiritual and cultural conversation starters to connect more deeply and support the development of your little ones as caring global citizens.
About our name and logo
lovingkindness (/ləviNGˈkīn(d)nis/): tenderness and consideration toward ourselves, others and nature. It is also a mental state or attitude, a strong wish for the welfare and happiness of others cultivated and maintained by practice (day-to-day conduct, meditation, commitment to embody LovingKindness with full body and mind).
boma (/bäma/): In African tradition, a place for storytelling and a coming together of people.
Our logo is inspired by the West African (Cote d’Ivoire/Ghana) Adinkra symbol ODO NNYEW FIE KWAN ("Love never loses its way home") which represents the power of love.
“The strong wish for the welfare and happiness of others. True LovingKindness is devoid of self-interest. It evokes within a warm-hearted feeling of fellowship, sympathy and love, which grows boundless with practice and overcomes all social, religious, racial, political and economic barriers. LovingKindness is indeed a universal, unselfish and all-embracing love.”