My Magic Breath invites you to join in on a breathing exercise that is meant to help calm the mind. Between the steady voice of the text, with its easy-to-follow steps, and the watercolour illustrations, with their colourful, flowing strokes, it does have the potential to achieve this. Ortner and Taylor tackle two causes for a busy mind; the times you have too many thoughts after your day, and the times where unpleasant things have happened. There solution is to breathe in and blow out a magic breath that is full of happy calming thoughts. The book itself acts as a guide for a child and their guardian to use right before bedtime, so it has readers repeat this act multiple times. There is no story, however as a picture book with a purpose, it may prove just as useful at the end of the day.