Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Mama hints to Marco about a big surprise in the Memorial Day parade and as Marco encounters each exciting section of the parade, he attempts to guess at the big surprise. The fast pace as the pair hurry to the parade along with the rest of the crowd adds to the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Holiday Books'
Memorial Day Surprise
May 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Tags:Alexandra Artigas·American·Early Elementary·Holiday Books·Holidays·Huyen MacMichael·Illustration·Memorial Day·Military Service·Parades·Preschoolers·Soldiers·Theresa Martin Golding
Easter Parade
March 31st, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL A lovely, vegan-friendly Easter book/song about an Easter bonnet and going through town for the Easter parade. I picked up this story serendipitously at the library and was hopeful that I had found a chicken-free, eggless story for Easter. I lucked out because not only is Easter Parade animal-friendly (well, there [...]
Tags:Early Elementary·Easter·Holiday·Holiday Books·Humor·Huyen MacMichael·Irving Berlin·Lisa McCue·New York City·Preschoolers
Shlemiel Crooks
March 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY I’m probably not the best person to review this book, since I’m not Jewish and this book is about the celebration of Passover in early 20th century St. Louis. Still, ever since my daughter attended a Jewish preschool last year, I’ve been on the lookout for a vegan-friendly Passover book, and [...]
Tags:Anna Olswanger·Early Elementary·Holiday Books·Holidays·Jewish Culture·Judaism·Passover·Paula Goodman Koz·vegan·Vegetarian·Yiddish
Looking for Easter
March 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY I’ve been on a quest for vegan-friendly Easter books for two years now, but the pickin’s are awfully, awfully slim. It’s a surprise too, since Easter is about new life, so you’d think there would be a huge number of life-affirming children’s books. Not so. Happily, Dori Chaconas and Margie Moore’s Looking [...]
Tags:Baby Animals·Best Books for Vegetarian Kids·Dori Chaconas·Early Elementary·Easter·Holiday Books·Holidays·Life-Affirming·Margie Moore·Mothers·Preschoolers·Reverence·vegan·Vegetarian




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