Review By JENNIFER KALI Miss Spider wants to have a tea party. She sets a beautiful table and waits for someone to fly by. She invites ladybugs, ants, bees, and other insects that fly by, but none of them “would dare to share a tea with anyone so spidery.” None of the bugs will have [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Insects'
Miss Spider’s Tea Party
October 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Books
Tags:David Kirk·Female Protagonist·Good for Toddlers·Insects·Jennifer Kali·Portrayal of Vegetarians in Books·Preschoolers·Spiders
Care Bears to the Rescue Movie
October 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Movies
Review By JENNIFER KALI I watched this movie with my daughter (2 years old) and her friend (3 years old). We were doing overnight babysitting and thought a movie night would be fun. I loved the Care Bears as a kid but knew nothing about this movie or the current incarnation of our 80’s cartoon friends. I took [...]
Tags:Bears·Companion Animals·Good for Toddlers·Insects·Jennifer Kali·Preschoolers·Wild Animals
Naturally Wild Musicians
September 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN You may remember Canadian Peter Christie as being the author of The Curse of Akkad, which we’ve previously reviewed here on Vegbooks. He’s generally well-known in the kid lit world for his fun, accessible books on animal behavior. The case is no different with Naturally Wild Musicians, an impressive survey [...]
Tags:Animal Courtship·Carolyn M. Mullin·Flies·Insects·Music·Older Elementary·Peter Christie·Spiders·Toads
Bugs by the Numbers
August 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR In the world in which we live, bugs usually get a bad rap! People fear them, don’t understand them and, well, tend to run from them. But one read through a book like Bugs by the Numbers and people may start to turn a new leaf. This book piqued my interest [...]
Tags:Cockroaches·Early Elementary·Fleas·Insects·Jacqueline Bodnar·Mosquitoes·Preschoolers·Sarah Forss·Sharon Werner
Flying Free
July 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER KALI I absolutely love this book, and so does my daughter. It’s told from the perspective of a firefly that is captured by a little girl. The girl wants to keep the firefly in a jar by her bedside to serve as a nightlight so that she won’t be scared at night. Her two moms [...]
Tags:Animals in Captivity·Fireflies·Good for Toddlers·Insects·Jennifer Kali·Preschoolers·Two-Mom Families
Give Us a Chance
December 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By ROBYN MOORE In Give Us a Chance, author Jane Mann introduces us to those creatures “we love to hate or may not yet appreciate.” It’s a short book of 26 rhyming poems intended to provide some understanding of the animals who often get a bad rap—such as pigeons, magpies, spiders, toads, ants, and [...]
Tags:Ants·Birds·Early Elementary·Insects·Jane Mann·Magpies·Older Elementary·Pigeons·Rats·Respect for Nature·Robyn Moore·Spiders
What If There Were No Bees?
November 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN This bug’s eye view of life as a grasslands honeybee illustrates the paramount role they play in an ecosystem, as pollinators of wildflowers and crops and sources of food for creatures higher up in the food chain. As many Vegbooks readers may know, there has been a significant decline in [...]
Tags:Bees·Carolyn M. Mullin·Early Elementary·Ecosystems·Food Choices·Honey·Humane·Insects·Preschoolers·Suzanna Slade
The Perfect Pet
September 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY A dog is too loud. A horse is too big. What’s an animal-loving kid to do when her parents’ response to every species she suggests is “no”? As much as she likes the “pet” cactus her parents gave her, Elizabeth, the main character in this lighthearted book by Margie Palatini and Bruce [...]
Tags:Bruce Whatley·Bugs·Companion Animals·Early Elementary·Female Protagonist·Insects·Margie Palatini·Preschoolers·Speciesism
Animal Poems
July 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Animal Poems features thoughtful poems about a variety of animals and insects. The late Valerie Worth’s poems unfold from a welcome awareness of the creatures’ perspective. These are not silly childish rhymes but rather more substantial, complex poems containing an abundance of food for thought and discussion. Whether it is about [...]
Tags:Animals·Elephants·Hummingbirds·Insects·Jennifer Gannett·Poetry·Steve Jenkins·Valerie Worth·Whales
Whose Garden Is It?
July 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY As someone who believes that at the very least animals deserve rights equal to, say, corporations, I’m disturbed that our legal system treats them as property. So when I read Mary Ann Hoberman’s Whose Garden Is It?, I was delighted to see that she tackled a complex issue like ownership in [...]
Tags:Early Elementary·Eco-Friendly Kids Books·Garden·Gardening·Illustration·Insects·Jane Dyer·Mary Ann Hoberman·Preschoolers·Rabbits·Urban Wildlife
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