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Entries Tagged as 'Respect for Nature'

Bear-ly There

July 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Bear-ly There is a refreshing look at the now common conflict between wild animals and people (and property).  This book has a wonderful message of accountability and respect for all different kinds of human and non-human animals, as well as a thoughtful and empowered young protagonist. The story opens with a [...]

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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 [...]

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Amy’s Light

July 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN The storyline and imagery may seem to border on the chimerical, but what takes place in Amy’s Light is a summertime occasion that adults can recollect with the same childlike wonder, joy and fascination as the main character, Amy. Considering that fireflies live mere weeks (a fact I picked up [...]

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Deep in the Jungle

July 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR What happens when you take an arrogant jungle lion and put him in a circus? He finds that he much preferred life in the jungle, and he returns with a new, more refined attitude toward his animal neighbors. In Deep in the Jungle, author Dan Yaccarino takes a look at circuses through [...]

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Winston of Churchill

June 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By MARSHA RAKESTRAW Pictures of polar bears clinging to small bits of ice have been a primary rallying symbol for the fight to stop global climate change. In Winston of Churchill: One Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming, the bears take matters into their own paws, thanks to the courage and foresight of Winston, who [...]

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An Adventure with Billy Bunny

June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY Billy the baby bunny is on the hunt for a “magical flying creature” called a butterfly.  Together with his friends — a nuthatch, field mouse, and a black-nosed mole — he looks in the daffodils and the sweetbriar bush, and under a water lily.  Along the way, he discovers a bee, [...]

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The Dancing Deer and the Foolish Hunter

June 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By MARSHA RAKESTRAW Based on the truisms that all life is interconnected and that we cannot artificially replicate nature, The Dancing Deer and the Foolish Hunter follows a hunter who discovers a deer dancing joyfully in the forest and kidnaps her to sell to the circus. When the deer refuses to dance without the [...]

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Let’s Save the Animals

May 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By MARSHA RAKESTRAW “I wish we could save all the endangered animals in the world!” So begins this creative book by Frances Barry. Bold, simple sentences with compelling action verbs (rhinos wallowing, penguins skidding, turtles scuttling) describe 10 endangered animals the author would save. Additional sentences in smaller, unobtrusive text highlight a bit about [...]

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Blueberries for Sal

November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY Robert McCloskey’s classic book describes a chance encounter between a child and her momma and a bear cub and his momma. When both families head to Blueberry Hill to stock up on fruit for the winter, the little ones get separated from their mothers and begin to follow the wrong mothers [...]

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