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Entries Tagged as 'Pigs'

All Kinds of Kisses

January 16th, 2012 · 8 Comments · Books

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 [...]

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Lucky Pigs

September 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL I was really excited about a true farm sanctuary pig story for children. (They are so few and far between considering how many amazing farm animal biographies are out there.) There are some really great farm animal biographies geared for adults (Ninety-Five and Farm Sanctuary) and a lovely collection of poetic [...]

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Pigs Make Me Sneeze

September 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By SANDI LANCASTER Mo Willems is a favorite children’s author in our house.  We have most of the books in his “Elephant and Piggie” series, and they always make for a fun read. In Pigs Make Me Sneeze, when Gerald the elephant is approached by his best friend, Piggie, he finds that he cannot [...]

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The Dancing Pig

July 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY This colorful picture book by Judy Sierra and Jesse Sweetwater brings to life a folktale from Bali, in which a dancing pig saves twin girls from an ogress. Using bold illustrations and expressive language, The Dancing Pig recounts the rescue — which involves a bunch of musical frogs and a mouse — and [...]

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Hogwash

June 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By ROBYN MOORE Kids will laugh aloud as they turn the pages of Hogwash. It’s silly and funny, and it has an important message about respecting animals for who they are. In the story, Farmer decides to bathe all of his animals including the dogs, cats, goats, cows, ducks and pigs. However, the pigs [...]

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Tuesday

May 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY Kiddo and I were surprised that I hadn’t reviewed Tuesday for Vegbooks. We love this book, because as kiddo puts it, “It’s funny and strange.” With few words and very detailed illustrations, David Wiesner has crafted a tale about flying frogs. Mysteriously, one Tuesday night, the frogs rise up on their [...]

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Henrietta

May 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT When I learned that dramatist David Mamet had penned Henrietta, the story of a pig who goes to law school, I was very excited to get my hands on a copy of the story.  I love pigs, I have enjoyed work by Mamet, and I even liked law school quite a bit (mostly). [...]

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Fairly Fairy Tales

April 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY We’re going to have a hard time returning this book to the library. After having the book read to her once, kiddo was able to read it by herself, and she’s gotten in the habit over the past few weeks of reading it to me every morning before school as I [...]

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The Great Pig Search

April 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Having been bested by the pigs he was raising in The Great Pig Escape, Bert shows he is still holding a grudge against a certain segment of the porcine set in The Great Pig Search.  When Bert and his wife Ethel receive a postcard from Florida reading, “OINK!” Bert insists on heading to [...]

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No Place for a Pig

April 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL This is the cutest story about a woman named Ms. Taffy who calls in to a radio station with the correct answer and wins the pig prize. She mistakenly thinks she won a pig trinket to fit on her shelf with the rest of her collection and is shocked when she [...]

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