Review By HOMA WOODRUM Billie the Unicorn by Brianne Brouhard is a vividly illustrated story set in what we learn is a world where unicorns grow plants and flowers. Billie is a little blue unicorn who seems to continually long for different pastures. She tends a cornfield but ventures into the forest to learn from her cousins [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Animals in Captivity'
Billie the Unicorn
January 25th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Books
Tags:Animals in Captivity·Brianne Brouhard·Early Elementary·Female Protagonist·Garden·Gardening·Homa Woodrum·Illustration·Unicorn
City Life
January 10th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER KALI We love this book. We got it for our daughter (age 2.5) for Christmas and have read it many times since then. It’s the story of a little girl thinking about all of the fun she and her two moms are going to have in her neighborhood the next day. As she lays in [...]
Tags:Animals in Captivity·Cities·Good for Toddlers·J. Cecelia Haytko·Jeanelle Ferreira·Jennifer Kali·Preschoolers·Two-Mom Families·Urban·Urban Living·Wild Animals in Captivity·Zoos
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
August 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Popular culture and movies abound with depictions of Doctor Dolittle, the man who could talk to the animals. The original series spanned several novels, of which The Story of Doctor Dolittle is the first. It’s a great adventure story, featuring memorable characters, exotic travel, a narrow escape from pirates, and of course, [...]
Tags:1920s Children's Literature·Africa·Animals in Captivity·Communication·Crocodiles·Doctor Dolittle·Dogs·Early Elementary·Hugh Lofting·Monkeys·Older Elementary·Parrots·Wild Animals·Wildlife
Flying Free
July 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER KALI I absolutely love this book, and so does my daughter. It’s told from the perspective of a firefly that is captured by a little girl. The girl wants to keep the firefly in a jar by her bedside to serve as a nightlight so that she won’t be scared at night. Her two moms [...]
Tags:Animals in Captivity·Fireflies·Good for Toddlers·Insects·Jennifer Kali·Preschoolers·Two-Mom Families
One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals
May 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Deborah Noyes is a wonderfully attentive and insightful author and photographer. Melding these two strengths into One Kingdom, she has summarized our oftentimes quirky, odd, abusive, symbiotic, and vastly interesting history living with animals through poetic and quizzical reflections. Her powerful black and white portraits bring to life the animal [...]
Tags:Animals·Animals in Captivity·Captive Wildlife·Carolyn M. Mullin·Deborah Noyes·History·Human-Animal Studies·Older Elementary·Photography·Zoos
Saving the Baghdad Zoo: A True Story of Hope and Heroes
April 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN All too often in human conflict and warfare, animals also suffer although their struggle for survival tends to be put on the backburner. The case was no different during America’s Iraq invasion. The U.S. Army eventually made it into the Baghdad Zoo and the royal palaces where wild animals had [...]
Tags:Animals·Animals in Captivity·Captive Wildlife·Carolyn M. Mullin·Kelly Milner Halls·Major William Sumner·Older Elementary·War·Wildlife·Zoos
Peter and the Pigeons
November 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Children’s literature is notoriously easy on the zoo industry. Zoos are depicted as places that animals want to be — with little mention of whether it’s natural for elephants to stand on concrete, or whether lions should really be pacing in their enclosures. So when a kids book is even a [...]
Tags:Animals in Captivity·Birds·Charlotte Zolotow·City·Early Elementary·Lions·Martine Gourbault·Pigeons·Preschoolers·Urban·Zoo
Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken
September 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Whoever uses the word “chicken” to mean cowardly has certainly not met Louise, the feathered heroine of Kate DiCamillo’s book. Louise longs for adventure and wanders off the farm to find it. She narrowly escapes pirates who want to eat her, spends time in the circus, and frees herself and other [...]
Tags:Animals in Captivity·Chickens·Circus·Early Elementary·Farmed Animals·Female Protagonist·Harry Bliss·Kate DiCamillo·Preschoolers
When Lulu Went to the Zoo
July 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY When I found out my daughter’s camp was taking a field trip to the National Zoo, a facility that still keeps elephants and uses free contact to handle them, I knew I had to take action. Happily, the wonderful parents on the Vegetarian Resource Group’s parent listserv suggested I get my [...]
Tags:Activism·Andy Ellis·animal rights·Animal Suffering·Animal Welfare Books for Kids·Animals in Captivity·Female Protagonist·Preschoolers·Zoo
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