Review By JENNIFER GANNETT In Teeny Tiny Ernest, Ernest spends a lot of time navel gazing and fretting about the fact that he is the smallest animal in his cadre of barnyard friends. When he tries silly tricks to make himself appear taller, his friends notice his unusual behavior and question him. He reveals that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Friendship'
A Starlit Snowfall
December 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER KALI I received this book as a review copy. It is the story of two friends making plans as winter approaches. Bear has a nice warm cave and invites Rabbit to stay with him until spring arrives. Rabbit says no at first, enjoying the freedom of the brisk fall mornings. But then the first frost of [...]
Tags:Bears·Early Elementary·Friendship·Illustration·Interspecies Friendship·Jennifer Kali·Jerry Pinkney·Nancy Willard·Preschoolers·Rabbits·Seasons·Snow·Winter
The Mountain that Loved a Bird
December 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT When a bird named Joy alights for a rest on a bare, lonely mountain in the middle of nowhere, their conversation sets in motion a series of events that will forever change the mountain. Alice McLerran’s The Mountain that Loved a Bird is the tender, touching tale of a friendship that [...]
Tags:Alice McLerran·Birds·Early Elementary·Eric Carle·Friendship·Illustration·Jennifer Gannett·Wildlife
Stellaluna
October 30th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By HOMA WOODRUM In the evenings when we sit outside, we see bats swooping through the air. My daughter happily points out that they are “Stellalunas!” Granted, Stellaluna is about a fruit bat and we don’t have them here in Southern Nevada but I love that she has a positive impression of bats because of [...]
Tags:Bats·Early Elementary·Friendship·Halloween·Homa Woodrum·Illustration·Interspecies Friendship·Janell Cannon·Preschoolers
You Will Be My Friend
October 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By ROBYN MOORE What a great new book! In You Will Be My Friend, young Lucy the bear sets out in the world to find a friend. She is so excited she can barely contain herself. However, her excitement soon turns to disappointment quickly as animal after animal rejects her as a friend. For [...]
Tags:Bears·Early Elementary·Female Protagonist·Flamingos·Friendship·Humor·Interspecies Friendship·Peter Brown·Preschoolers·Robyn Moore
Houndsley and Catina
September 20th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Books
Review By HOMA WOODRUM On vacation recently, I stopped into an independent bookshop that exclusively catered to children’s books and let them know I was looking for charming chapter books. Moments later I had a number of books to choose from and was flipping through the first of four books in the Houndlsey and Catina [...]
Tags:Books for Vegetarian Kids·Cats·Chapter Books·Companion Animals·Depiction of Vegetarian Food in Books·Dogs·Early Elementary·Friendship·Homa Woodrum·James Howe·Marie-Louise Gay·Preschoolers
Friends: True Stories of Extraordinary Animal Friendships
August 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Unlikely animal friendships has been a popular theme on Vegbooks, as can be seen with the reviews of Owen and Mzee, Tarra and Bella and Dogs Have the Strangest Friends. Author Catherine Thimmesh brings another compilation to this burgeoning genre with Friends: True Stories of Extraordinary Animal Friendships. But what sets [...]
Tags:Carolyn M. Mullin·Catherine Thimmesh·Early Elementary·Friendship·Interspecies Friendship·Preschoolers
What about Daisy?
July 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Like many Vegbooks readers, Maryan Faresh is a caring and compassionate individual; she’s a children’s advocate and an animal advocate, and the niche she’s carved out for herself in kid lit melds these two areas of concerns and the special needs they may be living with. Faresh boldly took the [...]
Tags:Animal Adoption·Books that Teach Character·Carolyn M. Mullin·Early Elementary·Empathy·Friendship·Gail Suzanne Weismann·Living with Disabilities·Maryam Faresh·Preschoolers·Self-Acceptance·Sensitivity·Special Needs·Tolerance
The Way I Love You
May 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Artist Ann James charmingly captures the sweet interactions between a pig-tailed toddler and her canine best friend in David Bedford’s The Way I Love You. The honesty of the young protagonist warms a reader’s heart as she declares her genuine affection for her friend in this flowing valentine: “I love…the [...]
Tags:Affection·Animals·Ann James·Carolyn M. Mullin·Companion Animals·David Bedford·Dogs·Early Elementary·Friendship·Illustration·Love·Preschoolers
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