Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Authored by humane educator extraordinaire Zoe Weil, Claude and Medea traces the compassionate awakening of two twelve year olds. Both students at a prestigious private school in Manhattan, Claude comes from a background of wealth and privilege while his classmate Medea’s background is working class. The two are not friends at [...]
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Claude and Medea
February 2nd, 2012 · 2 Comments · Books
Tags:Animal Rescue·Animal Research·animal rights·Dogs·Humane Education·Jennifer Gannett·Older Elementary·Portrayal of Vegetarians in Books·Rats·Vegetarian Protagonist·Zoe Weil
The Secret of NIMH
January 31st, 2012 · 6 Comments · Movies
Review By JESSICA ALMY When a mama mouse living in a field must save her family from the plow, including her son who is stricken with pneumonia, she discovers a secret world of super-intelligent rats who have suffered at the hands of vivisectors (at the National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH) and are seeking [...]
Tags:1980s Childrens Movies·Animal Research·animal rights·Animated Movies·Don Bluth·Early Elementary·Female Protagonist·Mice·Older Elementary·Rats
Born to Be Wild
January 20th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Movies
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT “Born to Be Wild” is an IMAX film focusing on the conservation efforts of two women working a world away from each other in different conditions but with aligned goals. Both have set up systems of caring for and ultimately releasing orphaned wild animals back into the wild. Daphne Sheldrick, who [...]
Tags:Animal Rescue·Biography·Birute Galdikas·Conservation·Daphne Sheldrick·Early Elementary·Elephants·IMAX·Indonesia·Jennifer Gannett·Kenya·Morgan Freeman·Older Elementary·Orangutans
The Giant Book of Giants
December 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By KRISTIN WALD Some stories can be told and retold ad infinitum, and they will continue to entertain and delight – or terrify. The Giant Book of Giants has managed to stuff six such stories centered on giants into one book that will delight any giant-lovers you know, and they haven’t sanitized the stories for [...]
Tags:Depictions of Meat in Books·Early Elementary·Folk Tales·Giants·Kristin Wald·Mark Robertson·Older Elementary·Saviour Pirotta
101 Ways to Save the Planet
December 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN A few weeks ago I got my hands on one of those 100-ways-to-help-earth type books. I usually just scan them to see if farm animals and dietary choices are mentioned at all. All too often these books pull an Al Gore and ignore the biggest way to make a positive [...]
Tags:Activism·Carolyn M. Mullin·Deborah Underwood·Eco-Friendly Kids Books·Environment·Food Choices·Older Elementary·vegan·Vegetarian
The Muppets
November 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Movies
Review By JESSICA ALMY Anyone who believes the old adage that publishers and producers can make works featuring male protagonists because they will appeal to both boys and girls (in contrast to female protagonists, which allegedly are of little interest to boys) has not watched a movie with my daughter. When we saw “The Muppets” [...]
Tags:1980s Culture·Early Elementary·Family Films·Family Movies·Humor·Muppets·Music·Older Elementary·Pop Culture
Happy Thanksliving!
November 7th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY It’s no secret that Nathalie VanBalen’s Garlic- Onion- Beet- Spinach- Mango- Carrot- Grapefruit Juice gets me totally, TOTALLY pumped! Or that ever since my husband and I started making our free-form garlic mashed potato pie stuffed with kale, carrots, and leeks (a veganized version of an old Vegetarian Times recipe), Thanksgiving is [...]
Tags:Best Books for Vegetarian Kids·Coloring·Early Elementary·Nathalie VanBalen·Native American·Native Peoples·Older Elementary·Preschoolers·Recycled Paper Books·Thanksgiving·Thanksgiving Books for Vegetarian Kids·Vegan Thanksgiving·Vegetarian Kids Books·Vegetarian Thanksgiving
Re-Craft
November 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Most of us apply the “reduce, reuse and recycle” mantra in many ways during the day. As veggies we reduce our ecological footprint with our choice to eat lower on the food chain (go, plants!). Likely we’ve invested in canvas bags that we can reuse time and again when buying [...]
Tags:Art·Carol Sirrine·Carolyn M. Mullin·Craft Projects·Eco-Friendly Kids Books·Environment·Jen Jones·Older Elementary·Recycling·Upcycling
Out of Breath
October 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By HOMA WOODRUM The angle that brought this book to us at Vegbooks (a free review copy) is that the protagonist in the story is vegan and a vegan vampire also is featured, so I will focus on those aspects as well as the claim that this book is appropriate for kids as young [...]
Tags:Blair Richmond·Female Protagonist·Homa Woodrum·Older Elementary·Portrayal of Vegetarians in Books·vegan·vegan teens·Young Adult
On Parade
October 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN It’s about time for an honest, open, factual, and focused discussion with older children about how animals suffer in our society. Rob Laidlaw, author of Wild Animals in Captivity and founder of Zoocheck Canada, recognized that and addresses his latest work, On Parade, on the subject of animals in entertainment. [...]
Tags:Animals in Entertainment·Captive Wildlife·Carolyn M. Mullin·Circus·Older Elementary·Rob Laidlaw·Wild Animals in Captivity·Zoo
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