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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Farming'
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
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
Babe
August 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Movies
Review By JESSICA ALMY I’d seen “Babe” years ago, at a time when I was neither a child nor a parent, so it was fun to revisit the movie with my 4-year-old daughter. What I’d forgotten, or perhaps hadn’t noticed, about the 1995 live-action flick when I’d seen it the first time was that it [...]
Tags:1990s Movies·Early Elementary·Family Movies·Farmed Animals·Farming·Live Action Movies·Older Elementary·Parents·Pigs·Preschoolers
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
Fantastic Mr. Fox
July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT When mean, crusty farmers become fed up with Mr. Fox’s pilfering of their poultry, they decide to eradicate Mr. Fox and his family. They declare a full-on war against Mr. Fox and declare their intentions to stop at nothing to achieve their goal of annihilating the Fox family. This includes stakeouts [...]
Tags:Chickens·Farming·Foxes·Jennifer Gannett·Older Elementary·Rabbits·Roald Dahl
Farmer Duck
April 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Poor, poor Farmer Duck! He irons. He gardens. He even does the dishes. Duck has been picking up the “real” farmer’s slack while the sloth lies in bed, munching on chocolates. Bleary eyed and exhausted from all his (or her… gender really isn’t used for the animals) multitasking, Farmer Duck [...]
Tags:Animal Liberation·Animal Rights Books for Kids·Carolyn M. Mullin·Chickens·Cows·Ducks·Farmed Animals·Farming·Friendship·Hard Work·Martin Waddell·Pigs
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