Early Elementary

Entries Tagged as 'Early Elementary'

Chicken Joy on Redbean Road

September 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY What a wonderful book for vegetarian and vegan kids! Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Melissa Sweet team up to create a playful adventure book about saving a chicken. Set in the bayou, Chicken Joy on Redbean Road is the story of a rooster who lost his ability to sing. Because a rooster who [...]

Now Hiring: White House Dog

September 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Loosely based on Malia and Sasha Obama’s quest for a canine companion, Now Hiring boasts a simple storyline where the girls take the dog search into their own hands. They fashion a homemade “Now Hiring” sign for the front lawn and receive half a dozen candidates on a particularly busy [...]

Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?

September 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN What is it with princesses? Is it the lovely pink hue of their dresses? Good breeding? Financial success and widespread popularity from being cast in a Disney film? Personally, I find the little princess of Carmela LaVigna Coyle’s picture book to be more up my alley than most idolized cartoon [...]

The Berenstain Bears’ New Kitten

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT In The Berenstain Bears’ New Kitten, the popular series tackles the subject of stray animals. When Brother finds a kitten in a pond and brings her home, the whole family becomes involved in cleaning and comforting the animal. The Bear family elects to keep the kitten, but not before they take [...]

Two Bobbies

September 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN It’s been five years since Hurricane Katrina first struck New Orleans. While much of the city seems to have recuperated, sections like the Lower Ninth Ward look more like untamed fields than once lively homesteads. And emotional stories like that of the Two Bobbies still sit with us, reminding us [...]

The Snail’s Spell

August 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY Many people are inspired to become vegetarians after they learn about the widespread animal exploitation that supports the Standard American Diet. For those of us, we can only hope that the next generation sees animals differently than ours does — not as commodities to be manipulated to maximize yield, but as [...]

Animalia

August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT In Animalia, author and illustrator Graeme Base treats readers to a remarkably captivating alphabet book. Each letter is represented with an alliterative phrase about a featured animal. Upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that the detailed pictures contain not only illustrations related to the animals described but that there are also depictions of [...]

I’m Gonna Like Me

August 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN In this day and age, kids can use all the positive reinforcement they can get in feeling good about themselves. Other children and society at large can be rather cruel, even to the youngest of minds, pointing out personal flaws or quirky differences. Jamie Lee Curtis’ I’m Gonna Like Me [...]

Garlic- Onion- Beet- Spinach- Mango- Carrot- Grapefruit Juice

August 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Garlic- Onion- Beet- Spinach- Mango- Carrot- Grapefruit Juice is a fresh, one-of-a-kind book designed to get a person’s mental juices flowing about compassion, vegetarianism, stereotypes, expectations, and (of course) juicing. Like the title, a lot of interesting ingredients get blended together in this book; and although it sounds funny, it sure [...]

Ladybug Girl at the Beach

August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY Having loved the original Ladybug Girl as much as I did, I was a little reluctant to read Jacky Davis and David Soman’s latest book in the growing series. After all, series books often have trouble rekindling the magic of the very first book. Labybug Girl at the Beach, however, captured [...]

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