Review By HOMA WOODRUM Lavishly illustrated, All Kinds of Kisses by Caldecott Medalist Nancy Tafuri is a big and bright book that follows animal parents kissing their babies. The unifying narrative that is noteworthy for veg parents, however, is that the animals featured are all connected by living on the same farm, ending with the human mother [...]
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All Kinds of Kisses
January 16th, 2012 · 8 Comments · Books
Tags:Animal Families·Animals·Baby Book·Chickens·Farm·Farmed Animals·Farming·Good for Toddlers·Homa Woodrum·Illustration·Mother's Day·Mothers·Nancy Tafuri·Pigs·Preschoolers·Sheep
Chickens to the Rescue
August 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT When the typical order of daily events breaks down on a farm, some atypical helpers emerge in Chickens to the Rescue. Silly events develop as the helpful poultry assist in all quarters. Watch fell down a well? Too tired to make dinner? Homework eaten by the dog? Duck absconded in a [...]
Tags:Chickens·Early Elementary·Farm·Farmed Animals·Humor·Jennifer Gannett·John Himmelman·Preschoolers
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
Hogwash
June 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By ROBYN MOORE Kids will laugh aloud as they turn the pages of Hogwash. It’s silly and funny, and it has an important message about respecting animals for who they are. In the story, Farmer decides to bathe all of his animals including the dogs, cats, goats, cows, ducks and pigs. However, the pigs [...]
Tags:Bath·Dirt·Early Elementary·Farm·Farmed Animals·Humor·Karma Wilson·Pigs·Preschoolers·Robyn Moore
Henrietta and the Golden Eggs
June 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Any book that begins with the unlovely depiction of life on a factory farm, such as this one which opens, “once upon a time, there were three thousand three hundred and thirty-three chickens who lived in a great big chicken house…” has my rapt attention from the start. In Henrietta and the [...]
Tags:Animals·Chickens·Early Elementary·Eggs·factory farming·Farm·Farmed Animals·Hanna Johansen·Hens·Industrial Farming·Jennifer Gannett·Kathi Bhend
Chicken Joy on Redbean Road
September 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY What a wonderful book for vegetarian and vegan kids! Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Melissa Sweet team up to create a playful adventure book about saving a chicken. Set in the bayou, Chicken Joy on Redbean Road is the story of a rooster who lost his ability to sing. Because a rooster who [...]
Tags:Best Books for Vegetarian Kids·Chickens·Early Elementary·Farm·Farmed Animals·Jacqueline Briggs Martin·Melissa Sweet·Preschoolers·Vegetarian Kids Books
Perfect the Pig
August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Before Granny Gomez and Jigsaw, vegetarian and vegan families had Susan Jeschke’s book Perfect the Pig. Celebrating porcine intelligence and the human-animal bond, Ms. Jeschke’s storybook also deals with animal cruelty and the problems that arise when we use animals for our own purposes rather than allow them to simply be [...]
Tags:Animal Abuse·Best Books for Vegetarian Kids·Compassion·Early Elementary·Farm·Farmed Animals·Interspecies Friendship·Lesson Plans·Meat-eating·Performing Animals·Pigs·Vegan Childrens Books·Vegetarian Kids Books
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