Vegbooks

Jacqueline Bodnar is a professional writer who blogs about vegetarian issues at VegBlogger.com. She and her husband have been ethical vegetarians since 1995 and are raising two vegetarian children. She is also a nature lover, environmentalist, and avid reader. Jacqueline is a Michigan native, who now resides in Florida, after spending almost a decade in Las Vegas. Jacqueline has written dozens of reviews for Vegbooks, including Make and Eat Vegetarian Food, Here Comes the Garbage Barge, So, You Love Animals, and Diary of a Worm.

Michael Croland runs heebnvegan, a Jewish blog about animal protection issues, and he has taught an animal rights class at Carnegie Mellon University. He is pursuing a masters degree in publishing at NYU. Read his post, “Eating Animals and Reading About Them.”

Kaitlyn Aiyana Enstice is 10 years old and attends elementary school, where she is in the fourth grade. She likes to read, use her imagination, play soccer and tennis, swim, and play with Java, her family’s companion rabbit. She is an animal lover and is a talented singer and dancer. She lives with her sister, Gabriella, her mom, Brenda, and her dad, Tim. Tim Enstice has been with the PETA Foundation for 10 years. As the director of gift planning, Tim oversees the entire gift-planning department and is also the person behind PETA’s plan to ensure that people have a way to help animals well beyond their lifetime here on Earth. Read their review of A Chimpanzee Tale.

Jennifer Gannett lives outside of New York City with her family.  A long-time environmentalist, in her free time she enjoys cooking and eating mouthwatering vegan fare and advocating for animals in need.  Jennifer has reviewed a wide variety of books and movies for Vegbooks, including The Curious Garden, The Great Chicken Escape, “Ratatouille,”  and “Ice Age.”

Huyen MacMichael is a stay-at-home mom, artist, and art therapist. She feels lucky to have found the sweetest rescued blue tick coonhound at the local no-kill shelter. She is raising her daughter vegan with her husband Ryan of Vegblog.org. As a mom, she enjoys the opportunity to read large quantities of children’s books to her daughter. As an advocate for the creative process, she appreciates a well-told and well-illustrated story.  Huyen brings an artist’s eye to all of the books she reviews, including Too Many Pears, Pete and Pickles, Hero Cat and Lucky Boy.

Maureen McDowell loves to travel, write, and paint. Always fond of farm animals, she became vegan in 2006, and she and her husband Craig raise their son as such. She and Craig volunteer for the Animal Protection and Rescue League. Read her reviews of What’s in My Garden? and The Carrot Seed.

John McIntyre writes for Healthy Juicing, a site where you can discover the amazing benefits of juicing and taste incredible juicing recipes. Read his review of Cows Are Vegetarians.

Carolyn Merino Mullin works extensively with youth, leading educational programs and outreach efforts, and collaborates with nonprofit institutions to incorporate humane education principles. She is currently affiliated with the Miami Children’s Museum and is aspiring to get her own museum on the Animal Protection Movement off the ground. Carolyn has served as Farm Sanctuary’s Kidz Club Coordinator and tutored at-risk youth through AmeriCorps’ Alachua County Reads program. Still a kid at heart, she can’t resist an enchanting children’s tale — something the readers of her reviews of children’s books, including The Chicken Gave It to Me, Farmer Duck, My Mom Eats Tofu and That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals, can’t help but appreciate.

Marsha Rakestraw juggles a plethora of projects for the Institute for Humane Education, including blogging about humane issues at the Humane Connection blog. She also volunteers as a humane educator and as the Vice-President and Education/Outreach Coordinator for Northwest VEG in Portland, Oregon. When not working to make the world a better place, hanging with her husband, or entertaining her precocious puppy and schizophrenic cat, she tries to shorten the perpetual stack of books at her bedside. Having worked as a youth librarian for 14 years has given her a fondness for good children’s books.  She has brought this perspective to bear on her reviews of a number of books, including Winston of Churchill: One Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming, Big Bear Hug, Souperchicken and The Great Pig Escape.

Sharon Young, a life-long animal lover, a vegetarian and a mom, has 3 rescued dogs and gently puts all spiders outside. She has worked for The Humane Society of the United States for 15 years.  Read her review of The Lady and the Spider.

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