Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Daniel Pinkwater’s Wolf Christmas is the tale of a small wolf pack on Christmas Eve. Told from the perspective of one of the pack’s young wolves, Pinkwater and his illustrator wife Jill Pinkwater depict life in the pack. On this particular night, the young wolves are playful in the moonlight, but [...]
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Wolf Christmas
December 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Tags:Christmas·Daniel Pinkwater·Early Elementary·Holiday Books·Holidays·Jennifer Gannett·Jill Pinkwater·Living With Wildlife·Peace·Preschoolers·Wildlife·Wolves
Redbird at Rockefeller Center
December 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT A surprise find at during a swing through a neighboring town’s library, Redbird at Rockefeller Center is an appealing story based around the famous Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center. When her mom sells their huge spruce to be the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, Kate pleads with her to change her [...]
Tags:Birds·Christmas·Early Elementary·Felicia Zekauskas·Female Protagonist·Habitat Destruction·Holiday Books·Holidays·Jennifer Gannett·New York City·Peter Maloney·Preschoolers·Trees
Christmas Kitten, Home at Last
December 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By ROBYN MOORE Christmas Kitten is a sweet book for kids to enjoy during the holidays. It has the typical Christmas cast of characters including Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, elves, and reindeer, but it also has a kitten, which adds to the cute factor. While making deliveries Santa Claus finds a homeless kitten. [...]
Tags:Animal Adoption·Animal Rescue·Cats·Christmas·Companion Animals·Early Elementary·Holiday Books·Holidays·Kittens·Preschoolers·Robin Pulver·Robyn Moore·Santa Claus
A Christmas Horse Named Cairo
December 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By MOLLY FRISINGER A Christmas Horse Named Cairo: A Rescued Palomino from Sunny Day Farms is a fundraiser book for Sunny Day Farms Animal Sanctuary. Using photographs and a simple storyline, the book tells the true story of rescued horse Cairo through the eyes of a little girl who lives on the farm. The [...]
Tags:Animal Neglect·Animal Rescue·Animal Sanctuaries·Betty Buckley·Brooke Chavez·Christmas·Holiday Books·Holidays·Horses·Molly Frisinger·Photography
Memorial Day Surprise
May 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Mama hints to Marco about a big surprise in the Memorial Day parade and as Marco encounters each exciting section of the parade, he attempts to guess at the big surprise. The fast pace as the pair hurry to the parade along with the rest of the crowd adds to the [...]
Tags:Alexandra Artigas·American·Early Elementary·Holiday Books·Holidays·Huyen MacMichael·Illustration·Memorial Day·Military Service·Parades·Preschoolers·Soldiers·Theresa Martin Golding
Easter Parade
March 31st, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL A lovely, vegan-friendly Easter book/song about an Easter bonnet and going through town for the Easter parade. I picked up this story serendipitously at the library and was hopeful that I had found a chicken-free, eggless story for Easter. I lucked out because not only is Easter Parade animal-friendly (well, there [...]
Tags:Early Elementary·Easter·Holiday·Holiday Books·Humor·Huyen MacMichael·Irving Berlin·Lisa McCue·New York City·Preschoolers
Shlemiel Crooks
March 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY I’m probably not the best person to review this book, since I’m not Jewish and this book is about the celebration of Passover in early 20th century St. Louis. Still, ever since my daughter attended a Jewish preschool last year, I’ve been on the lookout for a vegan-friendly Passover book, and [...]
Tags:Anna Olswanger·Early Elementary·Holiday Books·Holidays·Jewish Culture·Judaism·Passover·Paula Goodman Koz·vegan·Vegetarian·Yiddish
Looking for Easter
March 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY I’ve been on a quest for vegan-friendly Easter books for two years now, but the pickin’s are awfully, awfully slim. It’s a surprise too, since Easter is about new life, so you’d think there would be a huge number of life-affirming children’s books. Not so. Happily, Dori Chaconas and Margie Moore’s Looking [...]
Tags:Baby Animals·Best Books for Vegetarian Kids·Dori Chaconas·Early Elementary·Easter·Holiday Books·Holidays·Life-Affirming·Margie Moore·Mothers·Preschoolers·Reverence·vegan·Vegetarian
Thanksgiving in the White House
November 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Abraham Lincoln’s son, Tad (also called Tadpole by his father), was a sure spitfire in the White House, allegedly bombarding the Cabinet Room door with a toy cannon, amongst other antics. In Gary Hines’ Thanksgiving in the White House, readers learn about Tad’s friendship with an exceptional turkey named Jack [...]
Tags:Abraham Lincoln·Carolyn M. Mullin·Early Elementary·Gary Hines·Holiday Books·Pardoning of the Turkey·Preschoolers·President·Thanksgiving·Turkeys·Washington D.C.·White House
Silly Tilly’s Thanksgiving Dinner
November 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Silly Tilly is a sweet, and yes silly, mole who invites her friends over for Thanksgiving dinner. She inadvertently a) forgets to make the dinner; and b) gives them recipes instead of invitations. Thinking they’ve been invited to a potluck, the friends converge on Tilly’s home with acorn jam, pine nut [...]
Tags:Early Elementary·Early Readers·Female Protagonist·Holiday Books·Lillian Hoban·Thanksgiving·Thanksgiving Books for Vegetarian Kids·Vegan Thanksgiving·Vegetarian Thanksgiving
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