Review By HOMA WOODRUM I read this lift a flap board book (a review copy from the publisher) to both my 1 year old and my 3 year old. My 1 year old was interested in pulling at the flaps which, sadly, are a structural weak point in a book with otherwise sturdy pages (which [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cows'
Whooo Loves You?
August 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Tags:Animals·Baby Book·Birds·Cows·Good for Toddlers·Homa Woodrum·Love·Owls·Sandra Magsamen
Six Is So Much Less Than Seven
June 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Six Is So Much Less Than Seven is the thoughtful story of an older farmer with six affectionate cats. The book opens with all of them rising together, heading out to milk the farm’s cow and then moving on to the occupations of the day. It is clear that the farmer [...]
Tags:Cats·Companion Animals·Cows·Death·Death of a Pet·Early Elementary·Farm·Jennifer Gannett·Loss·Preschoolers·Ronald Himler
14 Cows for America
March 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT 14 Cows for America is the true story of a Maasai village’s response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. One of the villagers, Wilson Kimeli Ole-Naiyomah, was in Manhattan on that day, and when he returned to his remote village in Africa months later, he brought news of the devastation and [...]
Tags:Africa·Carmen Agra Deedy·Cows·Early Elementary·Jennifer Gannett·Maasai·Preschoolers·September 11·Terrorism·Thomas Gonzalez·Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah
Onion Juice, Poop, and Other Surprising Sources of Alternative Energy
December 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN If Deformed Frogs sounded pretty bad, get ready for Onion Juice, Poop, and Other Surprising Sources of Alternative Energy. Repugnant as it may be, these energy sources reel kids into learning about our global reliance on soon-to-be-dried-up fossil fuels and the numerous alternatives that are either on the market or [...]
Tags:Alternative Energy·Carolyn M. Mullin·Cows·factory farming·Farmed Animals·Farming·Fossil Fuels·Gross Books·Mark Weakland·Older Elementary
Benji Bean Sprout Doesn’t Eat Meat
October 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Sarah Rudy’s slim paperback portrays a school-age boy’s crisis of faith in vegetarianism. While this book is likely to appeal only to a narrow subsection of vegetarians, it could serve as a helpful tool for parents responding to peer pressure to eat meat. The plot is simple. Bullied because of his [...]
Tags:Chickens·Cows·Early Elementary·Farmed Animals·Healthy Living·Peer Pressure·Pigs·Sarah Rudy·vegan·Vegetarian
Ninety-Five
September 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Anyone who has ever visited a farm animal sanctuary is touched by the stories and personalities of the animals. The next best thing to visiting a farm sanctuary, is reading Ninety-Five: Meeting America’s Farmed Animals in Stories and Photographs, a fabulously tender collection of farm animal biographies with gorgeous accompanying photo [...]
Tags:Activism·Chickens·Cows·Farmed Animals·No Voice Unheard·Older Elementary·Parents·Photography·Sanctuaries·vegan·Vegan Parenting·Vegetarian
Cow
July 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR The reality that most vegetarian parents face when it comes to the way cows are treated is that the vast majority of these animals don’t have it good, to put it mildly. Pumped full of growth hormone and antibiotics, and then hooked up to mechanical milking machines, they live a production-line [...]
Tags:Books to Avoid·Cows·Dairy·Dairy Industry·Early Elementary·factory farming·Farmed Animals·Farming·Jacqueline Bodnar·Malachy Doyle·Preschoolers
Our Farm
June 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Farm animals are nothing short of magnificent. Seemingly, they’re more esoteric than our household companion animals, but friendlier and more approachable than say wildlife from the African savannah. Perhaps that’s why we are so enchanted with them. They’re a bit foreign to us city-dwellers, yet at the same time we [...]
Tags:Carolyn M. Mullin·Chickens·Coffee Table Books·Cows·Early Elementary·Farmed Animals·Goats·Maya Gottfried·Older Elementary·Pigs·Preschoolers·Turkeys
Too Many Pears
June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Pamela the clever cow will stop at nothing for her favorite fruit: pears. This is a cute story about a determined cow who overcomes all efforts to restrain her. The people (from whom Pamela steals the pears) try various methods of containing Pamela, without luck. Finally, the young girl Amy outsmarts Pamela with an idea [...]
Tags:Bruce Whatley·Cows·Early Elementary·Farmed Animals·Fruit·Huyen MacMichael·Jackie French·Preschoolers
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