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Entries Tagged as 'Vegetarian Thanksgiving'

Gobble Gobble

November 13th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL As my husband and I sat with our specially ordered vegan meals in front of us, I heard the wedding guests sitting on the other side of the table raving about deep frying turkeys and giving pointers to another couple about how to do it and I had an insane urge [...]

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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 [...]

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Sometimes It’s Turkey, Sometimes It’s Feathers

May 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY I’d first heard of Lorna Balian’s picture book Sometimes It’s Turkey, Sometimes It’s Feathers because it was recommended on the Vegetarian Resource Group’s veg parents listserv. Then I noticed that readers had also listed it on Goodreads as a good book for vegetarian and vegan kids. So of course I had [...]

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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 [...]

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Over the River: A Turkey’s Tale

November 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By ANDREA ZOLLMAN Using Lydia Maria Child’s poem, “Over the River and Through the Woods” as a backdrop for his book Over the River: A Turkey’s Tale, Derek Anderson spins this classic Thanksgiving piece by featuring a family of turkeys traveling through the countryside to visit grandmother’s house. As the turkeys walk along a [...]

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Run, Turkey, Run

January 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books

Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR In this holiday story, the poor turkey remains on the run, even when he thinks he is finally safe. The farmer plans to cook him for Thanksgiving and when he sets out to get him, the turkey runs. He ends up using multiple methods around the farmyard to camouflage himself from [...]

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‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving

November 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants, wrote and illustrated a decidedly pro-vegetarian children’s book for publishing behemoth Scholastic. In a playful parody on the classic Christmas poem, Pilkey brings a busload of children to a turkey farm where they befriend birds Ollie, Stanley, Larry, Moe, Wally, Beaver, Shemp, and Groucho.  The [...]

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