Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Madeline is a familiar and popular series to many so I thought I would introduce the stories to my daughter. We picked out this particular one by chance thinking it was about a hat, of course. But we were surprised to find Ludwig Bemelmans refers to the idiom of the bad […]
Entries Tagged as 'Animal Abuse'
Madeline and the Bad Hat
January 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Tags: Activism·Animal Abuse·animal rights·Cats·Change of Heart·Compassion·Dogs·Early Elementary·Female Protagonist·France·Humane·Huyen MacMichael·Kindness·Ludwig Bemelmans·Madeline·Paris·Preschoolers·Transformation
Deliverance of Dancing Bears
October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Australian Elizabeth Stanley writes from the heart and from her travels through Turkey and Greece in The Deliverance of Dancing Bears. Written in the calming tone of an old folk tale, the story tells of Yusuf, an elderly man, who bears witness to the warrant and needless cruelty inflicted upon […]
Tags: Animal Abuse·Animal Rescue·Bears·Carolyn M. Mullin·Early Elementary·Henry Bergh Award Winner
Perfect the Pig
August 20th, 2010 · 6 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 […]
Tags: Animal Abuse·Best Books for Vegetarian Kids·Compassion·Early Elementary·Farm·Farmed Animals·Interspecies Friendship·Lesson Plans·Meat-eating·Performing Animals·Pigs·Vegan Childrens Books·Vegetarian Kids Books