Farmed Animals

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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 [...]

Perfect the Pig

August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY Before Granny Gomez and Jigsaw, vegetarian and vegan families had Susan Jeschke’s book Perfect the Pig. Celebrating porcine intelligence and the human-animal bond, Ms. Jeschke’s storybook also deals with animal cruelty and the problems that arise when we use animals for our own purposes rather than allow them to simply be [...]

Babe

August 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Movies

Review By JESSICA ALMY I’d seen “Babe” years ago, at a time when I was neither a child nor a parent, so it was fun to revisit the movie with my 4-year-old daughter. What I’d forgotten, or perhaps hadn’t noticed, about the 1995 live-action flick when I’d seen it the first time was that it [...]

Swine Divine

August 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR Animals are dressed up on a regular basis and made to appear as something they are not. It may be in a circus, a show or even a photo shoot, as in Swine Divine. In this book, Rosie is a pig who gets a bath and then is taken to a [...]

Cow

July 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR The reality that most vegetarian parents face when it comes to the way cows are treated is that the vast majority of these animals don’t have it good, to put it mildly. Pumped full of growth hormone and antibiotics, and then hooked up to mechanical milking machines, they live a production-line [...]

Eating Animals and Reading About Them

July 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books

Post By MICHAEL CROLAND In its May/June issue, The Horn Book (a leading journal about children’s literature) featured an article by vegetarian and children’s book author Jennifer Armstrong. Ms. Armstrong tackled the apparent inconsistency between feeding animals to children and teaching them to do the right thing by using animals as models for good behavior. [...]

To Market, To Market

July 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY Anne Miranda’s brilliant spoof of Mother Goose’s not-so-vegetarian-friendly nursery rhyme “To Market, To Market” is full of humor and compassion, teaching kids that animals make better companions than they do food. Janet Stevens adds the illustration, overlaying retro photos in black-and-white with witty drawings. Kiddo and I love the expressions on [...]

Our Farm

June 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Farm animals are nothing short of magnificent. Seemingly, they’re more esoteric than our household companion animals, but friendlier and more approachable than say wildlife from the African savannah. Perhaps that’s why we are so enchanted with them. They’re a bit foreign to us city-dwellers, yet at the same time we [...]

Too Many Pears

June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Pamela the clever cow will stop at nothing for her favorite fruit: pears. This is a cute story about a determined cow who overcomes all efforts to restrain her. The people (from whom Pamela steals the pears) try various methods of containing Pamela, without luck. Finally, the young girl Amy outsmarts Pamela with an idea [...]

Farmer Duck

April 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Poor, poor Farmer Duck! He irons. He gardens. He even does the dishes. Duck has been picking up the “real” farmer’s slack while the sloth lies in bed, munching on chocolates. Bleary eyed and exhausted from all his (or her… gender really isn’t used for the animals) multitasking, Farmer Duck [...]

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