Are you expecting a baby, or know someone who is? Our contributors recommend these books for vegetarian and vegan moms-to-be —
- Becoming the Parent You Want to Be (Amazon affiliate link)
- Benji Beansprout Doesn’t Eat Meat(review)
- Birthing from Within(Amazon affiliate link)
- Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful(Amazon affiliate link)
- Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right(Amazon affiliate link)
- Healthy Eating for Life for Children(Amazon affiliate link)
- Peas and Thank You(Amazon affiliate link)
- Raising Vegetarian Children(Amazon affiliate link)
- Super Baby Food(Amazon affiliate link)
- The New Vegetarian Baby(Amazon affiliate link)
- The Vegan Family Cookbook (review)
- The Vegetarian Mother’s Cookbook(Amazon affiliate link)
- That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals(review)
- Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World (Amazon affiliate link)
- Vegan Express(Amazon affiliate link)
- Vegan Family Favorites(Amazon affiliate link)
- Vegan Family Meals (Amazon affiliate link)
- Vegan Holiday Kitchen(Amazon affiliate link)
- Vegan Is Love(review)
- Vegan Lunch Box(Amazon affiliate link)
- Vive le Vegan(Amazon affiliate link)
Why? Find out by reading “Baby Shower Gifts for Veg Moms” and the “Baby Shower List.”
Shopping for the little kids (ages 1-2) in your life? Here are our recommendations:
- Blue Hat, Green Hat(Amazon affiliate link)
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?(review)
- Eating the Alphabet(Amazon affiliate link)
- Flying Free(review)
- Growing Vegetable Soup(review)
- Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tail(Amazon affiliate link)
- Miss Spider’s Tea Party(review)
- Moo, Baa, La La La!(review)
- The Going to Bed Book(Amazon affiliate link)
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar(Amazon affiliate link)
- What’s Wrong, Little Pookie?(Amazon affiliate link)
- Who Is the Beast?(review)
To learn why we love each of these books so much, check out our lists of favorites for 1-year-olds and 2-year-olds.
What about vegetarian and vegan kids in preschool? We like these:
- Artist to Artist (review)
- Bear’s New Friend(review)
- Bugs by the Numbers(review)
- “Coconut Moon” an album by the Green Chili Jam Band (Amazon affiliate link)
- Crazy Hair(review)
- Diary of a Spider(review)
- Duck on a Bike(review)
- Each Living Thing(review)
- Garlic-Onion-Beet-Spinach-Mango-Carrot-Grapefruit Juice(review)
- Harmony on the Farm(review)
- Hero Cat(review)
- Horton Hears a Who(review)
- Houndsley and Catina(review)
- Jo MacDonald Saw a Pond (review)
- Llama Llama Misses Mama(review)
- Lucky Boy(review)
- Mercy Watson to the Rescue(review)
- Monster on the Hill(review)
- Ninety-Five(review)
- Olivia(review)
- “Only One Ocean,” an album by the Banana Slug Band (review)
- Owlyseries (review)
- Penny and Her Songand the other Penny Books (review)
- Pizza Kittens(review)
- The Cinder-Eyed Cats (review)
- The Earth Book(review)
- The Gas We Pass(review)
- The I’m Not Scared Book(review)
- The Little Yellow Leaf(review)
- The Peace Book(review)
- The Thankful Book(review)
- The Wiener Dog Magnet(review)
- To Market, To Market(review)
- Violet Mackerel’s Natural Habitat(review)
- Zen Ties(review)
Find out why by reading our anniversary posts, where we recommend books and movies for 3-year-old and 4-year-old vegetarian and vegan kids.

Older vegetarian or vegan kids in your life?We’ve got recommendations for 5-year-old vegetarian and vegan kids too. And browse our website for reviews of media geared to kids ages 6 to 12.
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More favorites to come – stay tuned!
